Diet affects ejaculate traits in a lizard with condition-dependent fertilization success

Behavioral Ecology

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 1502-1511

  Kahrl, Ariel F ^a   Cox, Robert M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Anolis sagrei; paternity analysis; postcopulatory sexual selection; sperm competition; sperm morphology

Indexed keywords

BIOENERGETICS; BODY CONDITION; CAPTIVE POPULATION; COPULATION; DIET; FERTILIZATION (REPRODUCTION); FOOD AVAILABILITY; LIZARD; MORPHOLOGY; PATERNITY; PHENOTYPE; REPRODUCTIVE COST; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; SEXUAL SELECTION; SPERM COMPETITION;

ANOLIS SAGREI; SQUAMATA;

EID: 84951160861     PISSN: 10452249     EISSN: 14657279     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/beheco/arv105     Document Type: Article

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