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The sexually-selected sperm hypothesis: sex-biased inheritance and sexual antagonism.

Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society - 1 May 2002

Pizzari T, Birkhead T R

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When females are inseminated by more than one male (polyandry) sexual selection continues after insemination in the form of sperm competition and cryptic female choice. The sexually-selected sperm hypothesis proposes that, under the risk of sperm competition, additive variation in male traits determining fertilising efficiency will select for female propensity to be polyandrous in order to increase the...

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PMID: 12056746
DOI: 10.1017/s1464793101005863

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