Males with high genetic similarity to females sire more offspring in sperm competition in Peron's tree frog Litoria peronii

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 275, Issue 1637, 2008, Pages 971-978

  Sherman, C D H ^a   Wapstra, E ^b   Uller, T ^a   Olsson, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cryptic female choice; Gamete recognition; Genetic compatibility; Siring success; Sperm competition

Indexed keywords

FERTILIZER; MICROSATELLITE DNA;

COMPARATIVE STUDY; COPULATION; FERTILIZATION (REPRODUCTION); FROG; GAMETE; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC VARIATION; HYBRIDIZATION; MAMMAL; MATE CHOICE; PATERNITY; REPRODUCTIVE BEHAVIOR; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; SELECTION; SPERM COMPETITION;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPULATION; FEMALE; FROG; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETIC SIMILARITY; HYBRIDIZATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PATERNITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; PROGENY; SPERM COMPETITION; ZYGOTE;

HYLIDAE; LITORIA; LITORIA PERONII;

EID: 40049098964     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2007.1626     Document Type: Article

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