Female fitness optimum at intermediate mating rates under traumatic mating

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 8, 2012, Pages

  Lange, Rolanda ^a   Gerlach, Tobias ^a   Beninde, Joscha ^b   Werminghausen, Johanna ^a   Reichel, Verena ^a   Anthes, Nils ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TRIER   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FEMALE FERTILITY; FEMALE FITNESS; FERTILIZATION; MALE; MATING; NONHUMAN; PENIS; REPRODUCTIVE FITNESS; SEA SLUG; SNAIL; SPERM; TRAUMATIC MATING;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; GASTROPODA; MALE; REPRODUCTION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL;

EID: 84865199651     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0043234     Document Type: Article

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