The relative nature of fertilization success: Implications for the study of post-copulatory sexual selection

BMC Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2008, Pages

  García González, Francisco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; FERTILIZATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; MALE; MATING; PHENOTYPE; SEXUAL SELECTION; SIBLING; SIMULATION; SPERM; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COPULATION; FEMALE; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; SPERMATOZOON; SPERMATOZOON COUNT; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY;

ANIMALS; COPULATION; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; MALE; MODELS, GENETIC; SELECTION (GENETICS); SPERM COUNT; SPERM MOTILITY; SPERMATOZOA; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 44649111810     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712148     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-8-140     Document Type: Article

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