Male Contest Competition And The Coevolution Of Weaponry And Testes In Pinnipeds

Evolution

Volumn 66, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 3595-3604

  Fitzpatrick, John L ^a   Almbro, Maria ^a   Gonzalez Voyer, Alejandro ^b   Kolm, Niclas ^c   Simmons, Leigh W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION BIOLOGY   (Spain)

^c UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Contest competition; Ejaculate allocation; Genital evolution; Sexual selection

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ALLOMETRY; COEVOLUTION; COPULATION; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; PINNIPED; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; SEXUAL DIMORPHISM; SEXUAL SELECTION; SPERM COMPETITION; TRADE-OFF;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; EVOLUTION; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MALE; MALE GENITAL SYSTEM; ORGAN SIZE; PHENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REPRODUCTION; SEAL; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; GENITALIA, MALE; MALE; ORGAN SIZE; PHENOTYPE; PINNIPEDIA; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REPRODUCTION; SELECTION, GENETIC; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL;

ODOBENIDAE; OTARIIDAE; PINNIPEDIA;

EID: 84868156986     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: 15585646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2012.01713.x     Document Type: Article

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