Male genital morphology and its influence on female mating preferences and paternity success in guppies

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 7, 2011, Pages

  Gasparini, Clelia ^a   Pilastro, Andrea ^a   Evans, Jonathan P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPULATION; CYPRINODONTIFORMES; EXTRA PAIR PATERNITY; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; FRESHWATER FISH; GENITAL SHAPE; GENITAL SIZE; GENOME ANALYSIS; GONOPODIUM; GUPPY; MALE; MALE GENITAL SYSTEM; MATE CHOICE; MATING SUCCESS; MORPHOLOGICAL TRAIT; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATERNITY TEST; PROGENY; SEXUAL SELECTION; SPERM COMPETITION; ANIMAL; GENETICS; HISTOLOGY; ORGAN SIZE; PHYSIOLOGY;

POECILIA RETICULATA;

ANIMALS; COPULATION; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; GENITALIA, MALE; MALE; MATING PREFERENCE, ANIMAL; ORGAN SIZE; POECILIA;

EID: 79960670876     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0022329     Document Type: Article

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