Extreme repeated mating as a counter-adaptation to sexual conflict?

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 271, Issue SUPPL. 6, 2004, Pages

  Laird, G ^a   Gwynne, D T ^a   Andrade, M C B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Repeated mating; Scaly cricket; Sexual conflict; Sperm

Indexed keywords

COPULATION; CRICKET; MULTIPLE MATING; REPRODUCTIVE BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL CONFLICT;

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONFLICT; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPULATION; COUNTER ADAPTATION; FEMALE; GRASSHOPPER; HYPOTHESIS; INTRAUTERINE INSEMINATION; MALE; MATING; NONHUMAN; ORNEBIUS APERTA; PATERNITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL CONFLICT; SPERM; SPERMATOPHORE; SPERMATOZOON MIGRATION;

ORNEBIUS APERTA;

EID: 17044396408     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2004.0198     Document Type: Article

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