Sex allocation and investment into pre- and post-copulatory traits in simultaneous hermaphrodites: The role of polyandry and local sperm competition

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 368, Issue 1613, 2013, Pages

  Schärer, Lukas ^a   Pen, Ido ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cryptic female choice; Multiple mating; Post copulatory sexual selection; Pre copulatory sexual selection; Sex allocation; Sperm competition

Indexed keywords

COPULATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; REPRODUCTION; SEX ALLOCATION; SEXUAL SELECTION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPERM COMPETITION;

ANIMALIA;

ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; HERMAPHRODITIC SPECIES; MALE; MATE CHOICE; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; SPERMATOZOON;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; FEMALE; HERMAPHRODITIC ORGANISMS; MALE; MATING PREFERENCE, ANIMAL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SPERMATOZOA;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84879469026     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2012.0052     Document Type: Review

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