Sperm number trumps sperm size in mammalian ejaculate evolution

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 282, Issue 1819, 2015, Pages

  Lüpold, Stefan ^a,b   Fitzpatrick, John L ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Body size; Ejaculate investment; Meta analysis; Metabolic constraint hypothesis; Postcopulatory sexual selection; Sperm dilution hypothesis

Indexed keywords

BODY SIZE; ENDOTHERMY; EVOLUTION; MAMMAL; METABOLISM; MORPHOLOGY; PHENOTYPE; SEXUAL SELECTION; SIZE; SPERM; TAXONOMY;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA;

ANIMAL; BODY SIZE; ENERGY METABOLISM; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; MALE; MAMMAL; PHENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGY; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SPERMATOZOON; SPERMATOZOON COUNT;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BODY SIZE; ENERGY METABOLISM; FEMALE; MALE; MAMMALS; PHENOTYPE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SPERM COUNT; SPERMATOZOA;

EID: 84947589624     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2015.2122     Document Type: Article

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