How sexual selection can drive the evolution of costly sperm ornamentation

Nature

Volumn 533, Issue 7604, 2016, Pages 535-538

  Lupold, Stefan ^a,b   Manier, Mollie K ^a,c   Puniamoorthy, Nalini ^a,d   Schoff, Christopher ^a   Starmer, William T ^a   Luepold, Shannon H Buckley ^a   Belote, John M ^a   Pitnick, Scott ^a  

^a SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLOMETRY; COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); FLY; GENETIC ANALYSIS; NATURAL SELECTION; ORNAMENTATION; REPRODUCTIVE COST; REPRODUCTIVE POTENTIAL; SEXUAL SELECTION; SPERM;

ALLOMETRY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTLER; ARTICLE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC CORRELATION; HORN; MALE; MATE CHOICE; MATING SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEXUAL SELECTION; SPERM COMPETITION; SPERM QUALITY; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMAL; CELL SIZE; CLASSIFICATION; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; COPULATION; CYTOLOGY; GENETICS; OVUM; PHENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGY; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; SPERMATOZOON;

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CELL SIZE; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; COPULATION; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; FEMALE; MALE; MATING PREFERENCE, ANIMAL; OVUM; PHENOTYPE; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SPERMATOZOA;

EID: 84971247576     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature18005     Document Type: Article

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