Genital Evolution: Why Are Females Still Understudied?

PLoS Biology

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2014, Pages

  Ah King, Malin ^a,b   Barron, Andrew B ^c   Herberstein, Marie E ^c  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^c MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; COPULATION; EVOLUTION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FEMALE GENITAL SYSTEM; GENDER BIAS; INTRASPECIFIC COMPETITION; INTRASPECIFIC VARIATION; MALE GENITAL SYSTEM; MATE CHOICE; NONHUMAN; ORGANISMAL INTERACTION; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; SEX DIFFERENCE; SPERM COMPETITION; STEREOTYPY; TAXONOMY; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY; SEXISM; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TRENDS;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; FEMALE; GENITALIA, FEMALE; GENITALIA, MALE; HUMANS; MALE; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SEXISM; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL;

EID: 84901475328     PISSN: 15449173     EISSN: 15457885     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1001851     Document Type: Article

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