Genetic patterns of paternity and testes size in mammals

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2010, Pages

  Soulsbury, Carl D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BODY MASS; GENETIC ANALYSIS; LITTER SIZE; MALE; MAMMAL; MATING; NONHUMAN; ORGAN SIZE; OVULATION; PATERNITY; PHYLOGENY; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; STATISTICAL MODEL; TESTIS; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCTION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

MAMMALIA;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MAMMALS; MODELS, GENETIC; PATERNITY; PHYLOGENY; REPRODUCTION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TESTIS;

EID: 77949683113     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0009581     Document Type: Article

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