Post-copulatory sexual selection and sexual conflict in the evolution of male pregnancy

Nature

Volumn 464, Issue 7287, 2010, Pages 401-404

  Paczolt, Kimberly A ^a   Jones, Adam G ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BROOD REARING; COPULATION; CRYPSIS; MALE; PATERNAL CARE; PREGNANCY; REPRODUCTIVE BIOLOGY; REPRODUCTIVE STRATEGY; SEXUAL CONFLICT; SEXUAL SELECTION; SPECIALIZATION; SURVIVORSHIP; TELEOST; TRADE-OFF;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BREEDING; COITUS; FEMALE; FISH; MALE; NONHUMAN; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL SELECTION;

ABORTION, EUGENIC; ANIMALS; BODY SIZE; CONFLICT (PSYCHOLOGY); COPULATION; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; MALE; MATING PREFERENCE, ANIMAL; PATERNAL BEHAVIOR; SELECTION, GENETIC; SEX; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SMEGMAMORPHA; SURVIVAL RATE; TEXAS;

HIPPOCAMPINAE; PISCES; SYNGNATHIDAE; SYNGNATHINAE; SYNGNATHUS SCOVELLI;

EID: 77949669220     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature08861     Document Type: Article

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