Cooperative breeding in groups of synchronously mating females and evolution of large testes to avoid sperm depletion in African striped mice

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 81, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 111-117

  Schradin, C ^a,b   Kinahan, A A ^b   Pillay, N ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Behavior; Communal breeding; Reproductive skew; Rhabdomys; Sperm; Sperm competition; Sperm depletion; Testis

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; COMPETITIVE ABILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; COOPERATIVE BREEDING; EPIDIDYMIS; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; MALE; MATING SYSTEM; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; RISK REDUCTION; SPERMATOZOON COUNT; TESTIS SIZE;

ANIMALS; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; EFFICIENCY; ESTRUS SYNCHRONIZATION; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; MALE; MICE; MURINAE; ORGAN SIZE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SPERMATOZOA; TESTIS;

INVERTEBRATA; MUS; RHABDOMYS; RHABDOMYS PUMILIO; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 67649660535     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: 15297268     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.108.075838     Document Type: Article

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