The maintenance of sperm variability: Context-dependent selection on sperm morphology in a broadcast spawning invertebrate

Evolution

Volumn 67, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 1383-1395

  Johnson, Darren W ^a   Monro, Keyne ^b,c   Marshall, Dustin J ^b,c  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ECOLOGICAL ANALYSIS AND SYNTHESIS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^c MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Anisogamy; Canonical analysis; Disruptive selection; Fertilization success; Fitness; Sperm competition; Sperm limitation

Indexed keywords

CANONICAL ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL GRADIENT; FERTILIZATION (REPRODUCTION); FITNESS; MORPHOLOGY; POLYCHAETE; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; SPAWNING; SPERM COMPETITION;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CYTOLOGY; ENVIRONMENT; FERTILIZATION; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; MALE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; POLYCHAETA; SPERMATOZOON;

ANIMALS; ENVIRONMENT; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FERTILIZATION; GENETIC VARIATION; MALE; POLYCHAETA; SELECTION, GENETIC; SPERMATOZOA;

GALEOLARIA; INVERTEBRATA; TUBICOLAE;

EID: 84876855714     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: 15585646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/evo.12022     Document Type: Article

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