Adaptations to sexual selection and sexual conflict: Insights from experimental evolution and artificial selection

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 365, Issue 1552, 2010, Pages 2541-2548

  Edward, Dominic A ^a   Fricke, Claudia ^a   Chapman, Tracey ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ejaculate allocation; Reproductive isolation; Selection; Selection experiment; Sperm competition

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; FLY; GENOMICS; MATING BEHAVIOR; REPRODUCTIVE ISOLATION; REPRODUCTIVE STRATEGY; SEX RATIO; SEXUAL CONFLICT; SEXUAL SELECTION; SPERM COMPETITION;

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; CYTOLOGY; DROSOPHILA; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; FERTILITY; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETICS; MALE; MATE CHOICE; PHYSIOLOGY; SEX RATIO; SPERMATOZOON;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; DROSOPHILA; FEMALE; FERTILITY; MALE; MATING PREFERENCE, ANIMAL; MODELS, GENETIC; SELECTION, GENETIC; SEX RATIO; SPERMATOZOA;

EID: 77956465328     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2010.0027     Document Type: Article

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