Consistent male-male paternity differences across female genotypes

Biology Letters

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 232-234

  Sherman, Craig D H ^a,c   Wapstra, Erik ^b   Olsson, Mats ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^c DEAKIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Amphibian; Genetic compatibility; Good genes; Paternity; Relatedness; Sperm traits

Indexed keywords

FROG; GENOTYPE; GOOD GENES HYPOTHESIS; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; PATERNITY; SPERM COMPETITION;

AMPHIBIA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; EJACULATION; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; FROG; GENETIC COMPATIBILITY; GENOTYPE; LITORIA PERONII; MALE; MATING; NONHUMAN; PATERNITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; SEX DETERMINATION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SPERM COMPETITION; SPERMATOZOON DENSITY; ANIMAL; FROGS AND TOADS; GENETICS; PHYSIOLOGY;

AMPHIBIA; HYLIDAE; LITORIA PERONII;

ANIMALS; ANURA; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; GENOTYPE; MALE;

EID: 65349172375     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2008.0796     Document Type: Article

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