Semen displacement as a sperm competition strategy: Multiple mating, self-semen displacement, and timing of in-pair copulations

Human Nature

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 253-264

  Gallup Jr , Gordon G ^a   Burch, Rebecca L ^b   Mitchell, Tracy J Berens ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT OSWEGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Cuckoldry; Double mating; Genital morphology; Paternity; Post ejaculatory changes; Sperm competition

Indexed keywords

EID: 33751067034     PISSN: 10456767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12110-006-1008-9     Document Type: Article

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