Evolutionary trade-off between vocal tract and testes dimensions in howler monkeys

Current Biology

Volumn 25, Issue 21, 2015, Pages 2839-2844

  Dunn, Jacob C ^a   Halenar, Lauren B ^b,c   Davies, Thomas G ^a   Cristobal Azkarate, Jurgi ^a   Reby, David ^d   Sykes, Dan ^e   Dengg, Sabine ^f   Fitch, W Tecumseh ^g   Knapp, Leslie A ^h  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b FARMINGDALE STATE COLLEGE   (United States)

^c DIVISION OF INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

^e DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Austria)

^g UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^h UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALOUATTA; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMAL; COPULATION; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; GENETICS; HYOID BONE; MALE; PHENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGY; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SPERMATOZOON; TESTIS; VOCALIZATION;

ALOUATTA; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; COPULATION; FEMALE; HYOID BONE; MALE; PHENOTYPE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SPERMATOZOA; TESTIS; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 84960808252     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2015.09.029     Document Type: Article

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