Male infertility, female fertility and extrapair copulations

Biological Reviews

Volumn 84, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 225-244

  Hasson, Oren ^a   Stone, Lewi ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Arms race; Direct benefits; Extra pair copulations (EPC); Fertile sperm precedence (FSP); Infertility; Oligospermia; Polyspermy; Sexual polyandry

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INSEMINATION; ASTHENOSPERMIA; AUTOIMMUNITY; AZOOSPERMIA; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; COPULATION; COST; DEPLETION; EMBRYO MORTALITY; EVOLUTION; EXTRAPAIR COPULATION; FEMALE FERTILITY; FERTILIZATION; HUMAN; MALE INFERTILITY; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MITOCHONDRION; MONOGAMY; MUTATION; NONHUMAN; OLIGOSPERMIA; POLYGYNY; POLYSPERMY; SPERMATOZOON; SPERMATOZOON COUNT; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; ZYGOTE;

ANIMALS; COPULATION; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; FERTILITY; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE;

EID: 65249158401     PISSN: 14647931     EISSN: 1469185X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-185X.2008.00068.x     Document Type: Article

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