Aquatic eggs are fertilised by multiple males not engaged in amplexus in a stream-breeding frog

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 91, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 304-307

  Zhang, Lixia ^a   Yang, Jie ^a,b   Lu, Youqiang ^a   Lu, Xin ^c   Chen, Xiaohong ^a  

^a HENAN NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b XINXIANG MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Amplexus; Feirana taihangnicus; Oviposition; Simultaneous polyandry

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; CLUTCH SIZE; FERTILIZATION (REPRODUCTION); FROG; OVIPOSITION; POLYANDRY; REPRODUCTIVE BEHAVIOR; REPRODUCTIVE STRATEGY; STREAM;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANURA; AQUATIC SPECIES; ARTICLE; BREEDING; CHINA; CLOACA; EGG LAYING; EJACULATION; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FEIRANA TAIHANGNICUS; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; FORELIMB; MALE; NONHUMAN; POLYANDRY; SPERM;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CLOACA; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; MALE; OVIPOSITION; OVUM; RANIDAE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

CHINA;

AMPHIBIA; ANURA;

EID: 84868195666     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: 18728308     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2012.08.003     Document Type: Article

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