Polyandry facilitates postcopulatory inbreeding avoidance in house mice

Evolution

Volumn 62, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 603-611

  Firman, Renée C ^a   Simmons, Leigh W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

MHC; Multiple mating; Postcopulatory sexual selection; Reproductive success; Selective fertilization

Indexed keywords

MICROSATELLITE DNA;

EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GENOTYPE; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; INBREEDING; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; POLYANDRY; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; SEXUAL SELECTION; SPERM;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; FERTILITY; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETICS; INBREEDING; MALE; MOUSE; PHYSIOLOGY; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR;

ANIMALS; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; FERTILITY; INBREEDING; MALE; MICE; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; SELECTION (GENETICS); SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL;

INVERTEBRATA; MUS MUSCULUS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 40449139926     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: 15585646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2007.00307.x     Document Type: Article

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