Male house mice evolving with post-copulatory sexual selection sire embryos with increased viability

Ecology Letters

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 42-46

  Firman, Renée C ^a   Simmons, Leigh W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Genetic benefits; Good sperm hypothesis; Mammals; Offspring fitness; Polyandry

Indexed keywords

COPULATION; EMBRYO; EVOLUTIONARILY STABLE STRATEGY; FITNESS; MALE BEHAVIOR; MULTIPLE MATING; REPRODUCTIVE COST; RODENT; SEXUAL SELECTION; TAXONOMY; VIABILITY;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL EMBRYO; ARTICLE; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; MALE; MATE CHOICE; MOUSE; PHYSIOLOGY; SPERMATOZOON;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; EMBRYO, MAMMALIAN; FEMALE; MALE; MATING PREFERENCE, ANIMAL; MICE; SPERMATOZOA;

MAMMALIA; MUS MUSCULUS; MUS MUSCULUS DOMESTICUS;

EID: 82455167836     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: 14610248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2011.01706.x     Document Type: Article

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