Extreme female promiscuity in a non-social invertebrate species

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2010, Pages

  Panova, Marina ^a   Boström, Johan ^a   Hofving, Tobias ^a   Areskoug, Therese ^a   Eriksson, Anders ^a   Mehlig, Bernhard ^a   Mäkinen, Tuuli ^b   André, Carl ^a   Johannesson, Kerstin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA MUSEUM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; LITTORINA SAXATILIS; MALE; MARINE SNAIL; MATING; NONHUMAN; POLYANDRY; PROGENY; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER PROGRAM; FERTILITY; GENOTYPE; INVERTEBRATE; PATERNITY; PHYSIOLOGY; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SNAIL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

GASTROPODA; HEXAPODA; INVERTEBRATA; LITTORINA SAXATILIS;

MICROSATELLITE DNA;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; FERTILITY; GENOTYPE; INVERTEBRATES; MALE; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; MODELS, GENETIC; PATERNITY; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SNAILS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOFTWARE;

EID: 77950526617     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0009640     Document Type: Article

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