Intralocus sexual conflict for fitness: Sexually antagonistic alleles for testosterone

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 279, Issue 1735, 2012, Pages 1889-1895

  Mills, Suzanne C ^a,b   Koskela, Esa ^a,c   Mappes, Tapio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE PERPIGNAN   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Artificial selection; Mammal; Sex limited epistasis; Sexual selection; Sexually antagonistic selection

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; ANTAGONISM; DIVERGENCE; EPISTASIS; FITNESS; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; RODENT; SEXUAL CONFLICT; SIBLING; TESTOSTERONE;

CLETHRIONOMYS GLAREOLUS; MAMMALIA;

EID: 84859395793     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2011.2340     Document Type: Article

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