Do male secondary sexual characters signal ejaculate quality? A meta-analysis

Biological Reviews

Volumn 88, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 669-682

  Mautz, Brian S ^a,c   Møller, Anders P ^b   Jennions, Michael D ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SUD   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Condition dependence; Female choice; Mate choice; Sexual selection; Sperm competition; Sperm count; Sperm length; Sperm motility; Sperm velocity; Sperm viability

Indexed keywords

SPERMATOZOON LIFESPAN;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CONDITION DEPENDENCE; FEMALE; MALE; MATE CHOICE; META ANALYSIS; PHYSIOLOGY; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; SEXUAL SELECTION; SPERM; SPERM COMPETITION; SPERM LENGTH; SPERM VELOCITY; SPERMATOZOON; SPERMATOZOON COUNT; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY;

CONDITION DEPENDENCE; FEMALE CHOICE; MATE CHOICE; SEXUAL SELECTION; SPERM COMPETITION; SPERM COUNT; SPERM LENGTH; SPERM MOTILITY; SPERM VELOCITY; SPERM VIABILITY;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; MALE; MATING PREFERENCE, ANIMAL; SEMEN; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SPERMATOZOA;

EID: 84880039991     PISSN: 14647931     EISSN: 1469185X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/brv.12022     Document Type: Article

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