Sperm competition drives the evolution of suicidal reproduction in mammals

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 110, Issue 44, 2013, Pages 17910-17914

  Fisher, Diana O ^a   Dickman, Christopher R ^b   Jones, Menna E ^c   Blomberg, Simon P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BREEDING; COPULATION; ENERGY EXPENDITURE; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; FEMALE; HABITAT SELECTION; LIFE HISTORY; MALE; MARSUPIAL; MATING; NONHUMAN; PREY; PREY ABUNDANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMELPARITY; SEXUAL SELECTION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPERM COMPETITION; SUICIDAL REPRODUCTION; SURVIVAL RATE;

DASYURIDAE; DIDELPHIDAE; LIFE HISTORY TRADE OFF; SEASONALITY; SENESCENCE;

ANIMALS; AUSTRALIA; BAYES THEOREM; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; FEMALE; FOOD CHAIN; MALE; MARSUPIALIA; MATING PREFERENCE, ANIMAL; PAPUA NEW GUINEA; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REPRODUCTION; SEASONS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SOUTH AMERICA; SPERMATOZOA; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TESTIS;

EID: 84887093522     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1310691110     Document Type: Article

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