Do male secondary sexual characters signal ejaculate quality? A meta-analysis

ABSTRACT There are two reasons why researchers are interested in the phenotypic relationship between the expression of male secondary sexual characters (SSCs) and ‘ejaculate quality’ (defined as sperm/ejaculate traits that are widely assumed to increase female fertility and/or sperm competitiveness)...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society 2013-08, Vol.88 (3), p.669-682
Hauptverfasser:	Mautz, Brian S., Møller, Anders P., Jennions, Michael D.
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Animal behavior Animal reproduction Animals condition dependence Female female choice Genotype & phenotype Male mate choice Mating Preference, Animal - physiology Meta-analysis Morphology Semen - physiology Sex Characteristics Sexes sexual selection sperm competition sperm count sperm length sperm motility sperm velocity sperm viability Spermatozoa - physiology
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