Father-offspring phenotypic correlations suggest intralocus sexual conflict for a fitness-linked trait in a wild sexually dimorphic mammal

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 276, Issue 1675, 2009, Pages 4067-4075

  Mainguy, Julien ^a   Côté, Steeve D ^a   Festa Bianchet, Marco ^b   Coltman, David W ^c  

^a CENTRE D ÉTUDES NORDIQUES   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE SHERBROOKE   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Body mass; Genetic paternity; Intralocus sexual conflict; Offspring phenotypic quality; Sexual selection; Ungulates

Indexed keywords

BODY MASS; DIVERGENCE; FITNESS; GOAT; MAMMAL; PARENT-OFFSPRING INTERACTION; PARENTAGE; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; SEXUAL CONFLICT; SEXUAL DIMORPHISM; SEXUAL SELECTION; WILD POPULATION;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FATHER; FEMALE; FITNESS; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC TRAIT; GOAT; GROUPS BY AGE; INTRASPECIFIC VARIATION; MALE; MAMMAL; NONHUMAN; PARENTHOOD; PATERNITY; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; SENESCENCE; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL SELECTION;

MAMMALIA; OREAMNOS; OREAMNOS AMERICANUS; UNGULATA;

EID: 72749116184     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2009.1231     Document Type: Article

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