Ejaculate Quality And Constraints In Relation To Sperm Competition Levels Among Eutherian Mammals

Evolution

Volumn 67, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 3052-3060

  Lüpold, Stefan ^a  

^a SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Basal metabolic rate; Body size; Energy budget; Postcopulatory sexual selection; Sperm number; Sperm quality

Indexed keywords

BODY SIZE; COPULATION; ENERGY BUDGET; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; MAMMAL; METABOLISM; MORPHOLOGY; MOTILITY; SECONDARY SEXUAL CHARACTERISTICS; SEXUAL SELECTION; SPERM COMPETITION;

EUTHERIA; MAMMALIA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BASAL METABOLIC RATE; BODY SIZE; ENERGY BUDGET; ENERGY METABOLISM; HISTOLOGY; MALE; MAMMAL; ORGAN SIZE; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; POSTCOPULATORY SEXUAL SELECTION; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPERM NUMBER; SPERM QUALITY; SPERMATOZOON; TESTIS;

BASAL METABOLIC RATE; BODY SIZE; ENERGY BUDGET; POSTCOPULATORY SEXUAL SELECTION; SPERM NUMBER; SPERM QUALITY;

ANIMALS; BASAL METABOLISM; BODY SIZE; ENERGY METABOLISM; MALE; MAMMALS; ORGAN SIZE; PHYLOGENY; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SPERMATOZOA; TESTIS;

EID: 84885028966     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: 15585646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/evo.12132     Document Type: Article

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