Complex patterns of multivariate selection on the ejaculate of a broadcast spawning marine invertebrate

Evolution

Volumn 66, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 2451-2460

  Fitzpatrick, John L ^a   Simmons, Leigh W ^a   Evans, Jonathan P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Disruptive selection; Free spawning; Mussel; Nonlinear selection; Postcopulatory sexual selection; Selection analysis; Sperm competition

Indexed keywords

BIVALVE; COMPLEXITY; COPULATION; FERTILIZATION (REPRODUCTION); MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MOTILITY; SESSILE SPECIES; SEXUAL SELECTION; SPAWNING;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CYTOLOGY; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETICS; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; MYTILUS; PHYSIOLOGY; SPERMATOZOON;

ANIMALS; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; MYTILUS; SELECTION, GENETIC; SPERMATOZOA; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

INVERTEBRATA; MYTILUS GALLOPROVINCIALIS;

EID: 84864323144     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: 15585646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2012.01627.x     Document Type: Article

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