Two roads to two sexes: Unifying gamete competition and gamete limitation in a single model of anisogamy evolution

Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

Volumn 65, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 445-459

  Lehtonen, Jussi ^a,b   Kokko, Hanna ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Anisogamy; Parental care; Sex roles; Sperm competition

Indexed keywords

EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; FERTILIZATION (REPRODUCTION); PARENTAL CARE; PATERNITY; REPRODUCTIVE BIOLOGY; SEX ROLE; SPERM;

EID: 79951549355     PISSN: 03405443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00265-010-1116-8     Document Type: Article

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