Complex interactions with females and rival males limit the evolution of sperm offence and defence

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 274, Issue 1619, 2007, Pages 1779-1788

  Bjork, Adam ^a,b   Starmer, William T ^a   Higginson, Dawn M ^a   Rhodes, Christopher J ^a   Pitnick, Scott ^a  

^a SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b University of Arizona   (United States)

Author keywords

Artificial selection; Drosophila; Genetic interactions; Sperm competition; Virgin effects

Indexed keywords

FLY; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOTYPE; MALE BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL SELECTION; SPERM COMPETITION;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEFENSIVE BEHAVIOR; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EJACULATION; FEMALE; GENE INTERACTION; GENETIC TRAIT; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MALE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; OUTBREEDING; POPULATION GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SPERM COMPETITION;

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER;

EID: 34548391960     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2007.0293     Document Type: Article

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