Understanding the link between sexual selection, sexual conflict and aging using crickets as a model

Experimental Gerontology

Volumn 71, Issue , 2015, Pages 4-13

  Archer, C Ruth ^a   Hunt, John ^b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR DEMOGRAPHIC RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Geometric Framework of Nutrition; Intralocus sexual conflict; Orthoptera; Oxidative damage; Quantitative genetics; Reactive Oxygen Species

Indexed keywords

AGING; ALLONEMOBIUS SOCIUS; ARTICLE; ENSIFERA; EVOLUTION; GRYLLODES SIGILLATUS; GRYLLUS LINEATICEPS; GRYLLUS VELETIS; GRYLLUS VOCALIS; HUMAN; IMAGO; LIFESPAN; MATING SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; NUTRITION; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL CONFLICT; SEXUAL SELECTION; ANIMAL; ANIMAL MODEL; CONFLICT; FEMALE; GENETIC SELECTION; GRYLLIDAE; LONGEVITY; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCTION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; VOCALIZATION;

AGING; ANIMALS; CONFLICT (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; GRYLLIDAE; LONGEVITY; MALE; MODELS, ANIMAL; REPRODUCTION; SELECTION, GENETIC; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 84947030059     PISSN: 05315565     EISSN: 18736815     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exger.2015.06.017     Document Type: Article

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