Coevolution of parental investment and sexually selected traits drives sex-role divergence

Nature Communications

Volumn 7, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Fromhage, Lutz ^a   Jennions, Michael D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ   (Finland)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; COEVOLUTION; DIVERGENCE; EVOLUTIONARY THEORY; GAMETE; PARENTAL INVESTMENT; SEX RATIO; SEX ROLE; SEXUAL SELECTION;

ADULT; COEVOLUTION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INVESTMENT; MODEL; NEGATIVE FEEDBACK; PARENTHOOD; PREDICTION; SEX RATIO; SEX ROLE; SEXUAL SELECTION; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; MALE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT; SEXUAL CHARACTERISTICS; TIME FACTOR;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; FEMALE; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT, HERITABLE; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SEX RATIO; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84983288473     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms12517     Document Type: Article

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