Why anisogamy drives ancestral sex roles

Evolution

Volumn 70, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 1129-1135

  Lehtonen, Jussi ^a,b   Parker, Geoff A ^c   Schärer, Lukas ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Anisogamy; Female; Isogamy; Male; Sex roles; Sexual selection

Indexed keywords

ANCESTRY; COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); FEMALE; FERTILIZATION (REPRODUCTION); GAMETE; MALE; MULTIPLE MATING; NUMERICAL MODEL; PROBABILITY; SEX ROLE; SEXUAL SELECTION;

ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CYTOLOGY; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; GENETICS; GERM CELL; MALE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHYSIOLOGY; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT;

ANIMALS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; GERM CELLS; MALE; MODELS, GENETIC; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL;

EID: 84965031808     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: 15585646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/evo.12926     Document Type: Article

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