Postcopulatory sexual selection is associated with accelerated evolution of sperm morphology

Evolution

Volumn 69, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 1044-1052

  Rowe, Melissah ^a   Albrecht, Tomáš ^b,c   Cramer, Emily R A ^a   Johnsen, Arild ^a   Laskemoen, Terje ^a   Weir, Jason T ^d   Lifjeld, Jan T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b INSTITUTE OF VERTEBRATE BIOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

^c CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Birds; Evolutionary diversification; Evolutionary rate; Passerine; Sperm competition

Indexed keywords

COPULATION; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; MORPHOLOGY; PASSERINE; SEXUAL SELECTION; SPERM COMPETITION;

AVES; PASSERIFORMES;

ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CYTOLOGY; EVOLUTION; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETICS; MALE; ORGAN SIZE; PASSERIFORMES; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; SPERMATOZOON; TESTIS;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; MALE; MODELS, GENETIC; ORGAN SIZE; PASSERIFORMES; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; SELECTION, GENETIC; SPERMATOZOA; TESTIS;

EID: 84927911150     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: 15585646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/evo.12620     Document Type: Article

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