Sperm Competition and Sexual Selection
Contributors: Tim R. Birkhead (Editor); Anders Pape Møller (Editor)
Edition: 1st edition
Publisher: Academic Press
Published: September 15, 1998
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 826
ISBN-13: 9780121005436
Subjects: Animal behaviour; Animal ecology; Botany & plant sciences; Evolution; Reproductive Medicine & Technology; Physiology Of Reproduction; Science; Medical; Genetics; Life Sciences - Biology - General; Pathophysiology; Psychology & Psychiatry / Social Psychology
First sentence: My initial review on sperm competition (Parker 1970a), which focused on the insects, attempted to demonstrate that ejaculates commonly overlap in the female tract and to indicate how paternity could be estimated.