Coevolution of non-fertile sperm and female receptivity in a butterfly

Biology Letters

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 678-681

  Wedell, Nina ^a   Wiklund, Christer ^b   Bergström, Jonas ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^b STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Coevolution; Sexual conflict; Sperm competition

Indexed keywords

BUTTERFLY; COEVOLUTION; FECUNDITY; GENETIC VARIATION; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; REPRODUCTIVE STRATEGY; SELECTION; SEXUAL CONFLICT; SPERM COMPETITION;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BUTTERFLY; COEVOLUTION; FEMALE; FEMALE FERTILITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MALE; MATING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE GENETICS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL SELECTION; SPERM; SPERM COMPETITION; SPERM PRESERVATION; SPERMATOGENESIS;

PAPILIONOIDEA; PIERIS BRASSICAE; PIERIS NAPI;

EID: 70349289192     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2009.0452     Document Type: Article

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