A trade-off between precopulatory and postcopulatory trait investment in male cetaceans

Evolution

Volumn 69, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 1560-1572

  Dines, James P ^a,b   Mesnick, Sarah L ^c   Ralls, Katherine ^d   May Collado, Laura ^e   Agnarsson, Ingi ^e   Dean, Matthew D ^b  

^a NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM OF LOS ANGELES COUNTY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c SOUTHWEST FISHERIES SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^d SMITHSONIAN CONSERVATION BIOLOGY INSTITUTE   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

Author keywords

Morphological evolution; Reproductive strategies; Sexual selection; Trade offs

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; CETACEAN; COPULATION; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; PHYLOGENETICS; REPRODUCTIVE STRATEGY; SEX-RELATED DIFFERENCE; SEXUAL SELECTION; SPERM;

CETACEA;

ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMAL; BODY SIZE; CETACEA; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; EVOLUTION; MALE; MATE CHOICE; ORGAN SIZE; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCTION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TESTIS;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BODY SIZE; CETACEA; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; MALE; MATING PREFERENCE, ANIMAL; ORGAN SIZE; PHYLOGENY; REPRODUCTION; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TESTIS;

EID: 84931578113     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: 15585646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/evo.12676     Document Type: Article

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