Genetic mating systems and reproductive natural histories of fishes: Lessons for ecology and evolution

Annual Review of Genetics

Volumn 36, Issue , 2002, Pages 19-45

  Avise, John C ^a   Jones, Adam G ^a,b   Walker, DeEtte ^a   DeWoody, J Andrew ^c   Dakin, Beth ^d   Fiumera, Anthony ^d   Fletcher, Dean ^d   Mackiewicz, Mark ^d   Pearse, Devon ^d   Porter, Brady ^d   Wilkins, S David ^d  

^a University of Georgia ^*  (United States)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d NONE

Author keywords

Alternative reproductive tactics; Cuckoldry; Molecular markers; Parentage analysis; Sexual selection

Indexed keywords

MOLECULAR MARKER;

BROOD PARASITISM; CANNIBALISM; ECOLOGY; FEMALE; FISH; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC MARKER; MALE; MATING; MICROSATELLITE MARKER; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR MIMICRY; NESTING; NONHUMAN; PARENTAGE ANALYSIS; POLYANDRY; POPULATION SIZE; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; REVIEW; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEX TRANSFORMATION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL SELECTION; SPERM PRESERVATION;

ANIMALS; ECOLOGY; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; FISHES; MALE; PREGNANCY;

PISCES; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 12244307863     PISSN: 00664197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.genet.36.030602.090831     Document Type: Review

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