Human sperm competition: Testis size, sperm production and rates of extrapair copulations

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 68, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 297-302

  Simmons, Leigh W ^a   Firman, Renée C ^a   Rhodes, Gillian ^a   Peters, Marianne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXTRA-PAIR COPULATION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SPERM COMPETITION;

PRIMATES;

EID: 3242714180     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2003.11.013     Document Type: Article

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