Sperm competition and ejaculate economics

Biological Reviews

Volumn 85, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 897-934

  Parker, Geoff A ^a   Pizzari, Tommaso ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Postcopulatory sexual selection; Relative testes size; Sex allocation; Sperm allocation; Sperm competition; Sperm economics

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; FLY; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETICS; MALE; MATE CHOICE; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCTIVE FITNESS; REVIEW; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPERMATOZOON;

ANIMALS; DIPTERA; GENETIC FITNESS; MALE; MATING PREFERENCE, ANIMAL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SELECTION, GENETIC; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SPERMATOZOA;

SCATHOPHAGA STERCORARIA;

EID: 78650333070     PISSN: 14647931     EISSN: 1469185X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-185X.2010.00140.x     Document Type: Review

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