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1. Full Text SPERM COMPETITION GAMES: A GENERAL MODEL FOR PRECOPULATORY MALE—MALE COMPETITION
by Geoff A. Parker and Catherine M. Lessells and Leigh W. Simmons
Evolution, ISSN 0014-3820, 1/2013, Volume 67, Issue 1, pp. 95 - 109
Reproductive males face a trade-off between expenditure on precopulatory male—male competition—increasing the number of females that they secure as mates—and... 
Mating behavior | Spermatozoa | Contests | Ecological competition | Male animals | Evolution | Testes | Female animals | Modeling | Sperm competition | life‐history trade‐off | Contest competition | ejaculate allocation | scramble competition | weapons | Ejaculate allocation | Scramble competition | Weapons | Life-history trade-off | ONCORHYNCHUS-KISUTCH | EJACULATE EXPENDITURE | POPULATION-DENSITY | SECONDARY SEXUAL TRAITS | ALLOCATION STRATEGIES | PSEUDALETIA-SEPARATA | life-history trade-off | LEPOMIS-MACROCHIRUS | EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY | STALK-EYED FLIES | GENETICS & HEREDITY | SPERMATOPHORE SIZE | ECOLOGY | ALTERNATIVE REPRODUCTIVE TACTICS | Copulation | Sexual Behavior, Animal | Animals | Models, Biological | Ejaculation | Male | Spermatozoa - physiology | Evolution, Molecular | Competition (Biology) | Motility | Genetic aspects | Research | Sexual reproduction
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2. Sperm competition in butterflies
by Watanabe, Mamoru, 1950
2016, Ecological research monographs, ISBN 4431559450
Reproduction | Physiology | Butterflies | Sperm competition
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3. Full Text Sperm competition and ejaculate economics
by Parker, Geoff A and Pizzari, Tommaso
Biological Reviews, ISSN 1464-7931, 11/2010, Volume 85, Issue 4, pp. 897 - 934
Sperm competition was identified in 1970 as a pervasive selective force in post-copulatory sexual selection that occurs when the ejaculates of different males... 
Relative testes size | Sex allocation | Sperm economics | Sperm allocation | Postcopulatory sexual selection | Sperm competition | sperm economics | OPTIMAL COPULA DURATION | SCATHOPHAGA-STERCORARIA | MARGINAL VALUE THEOREM | sperm allocation | sperm competition | ALLOCATION STRATEGIES | sex allocation | EXTERNAL-FERTILIZATION MODEL | L DIPTERA-SCATOPHAGIDAE | YELLOW DUNG FLIES | FEMALE MATING STATUS | BIOLOGY | relative testes size | MALE MEADOW VOLES | postcopulatory sexual selection | SEXUAL-SELECTION | Animals | Genetic Fitness | Species Specificity | Models, Biological | Selection, Genetic | Diptera - physiology | Male | Mating Preference, Animal - physiology | Spermatozoa - physiology | Diptera - genetics | Spermatozoa | Motility | Research | Ejaculation | Analysis | Sexual selection in animals
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4. Sperm competition in birds
: evolutionary causes and consequences
by Birkhead, Tim and Møller, A. P. (Anders Pape)
1992, ISBN 9780121005405, x, 282
Sexual behavior in animals | Competition (Biology) | Birds | Reproduction | Spermatozoa
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5. Human sperm competition
: copulation, masturbation and infidelity
by Baker, Robin, 1944 and Bellis, Mark A
1995, 1st ed., ISBN 0412454300, xvi, 353 p., [1] p. of plates
Competition (Biology) | Spermatozoa | Human reproduction | Sex | Sexual behavior in animals | Evolution | Generative organs
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6. Full Text Sperm competition and sexual selection
by Birkhead, Tim and Møller, A. P. (Anders Pape)
1998, ISBN 9780121005436, 853
Sperm Competition and Sexual Selection presents the intricate ways in which sperm compete to fertilize eggs and how this has prompted reinterpretations of... 
Sexual behavior in animals | Competition (Biology) | Spermatozoa | Biology, life sciences | Sex (Biology) | Sexual selection in animals
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7. Promiscuity
: an evolutionary history of sperm competition
by Birkhead, Tim
2000, ISBN 0674004450, xiii, 272
Reproduction | Sperm competition | Sexual selection in animals | Promiscuity
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8. Full Text Competition among Aedes aegypti larvae
by Steinwascher, Kurt
PLoS ONE, ISSN 1932-6203, 11/2018, Volume 13, Issue 11, p. e0202455
Adult Aedes aegypti mosquitoes are important vectors of human disease. The size of the adult female affects her success, fitness, and ability to transmit... 
LIFE-HISTORY TRAITS | LA-CROSSE VIRUS | ALBOPICTUS DIPTERA | ADULT BODY-SIZE | MULTIDISCIPLINARY SCIENCES | TRISERIATUS DIPTERA-CULICIDAE | OVERCROWDING FACTORS | CONTAINER MOSQUITOS | INTRASPECIFIC LARVAL COMPETITION | POPULATION-DYNAMICS | TREE-HOLE MOSQUITOS | Animals | Ecosystem | Larva - growth & development | Mosquito Vectors - growth & development | Female | Male | Sex Characteristics | Aedes - growth & development | Mosquitoes | Analysis | Competition | Larvae | Yeast | Laboratories | Sperm | Containers | Parasites | Males | Multivariate analysis | Aquatic insects | Density | Experiments | Success | Food | Medical research | Pupation | Data processing | Vectors | Gender differences | Variance analysis | Environmental conditions | Pupa | Dependent variables | Adults | Females | Fitness
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9. Full Text Sperm competition: Linking form to function
by Humphries, Stuart and Evans, Jonathan P and Simmons, Leigh W
BMC Evolutionary Biology, ISSN 1471-2148, 2008, Volume 8, Issue 1, pp. 319 - 319
Background: Using information from physics, biomechanics and evolutionary biology, we explore the implications of physical constraints on sperm performance,... 
LOW-REYNOLDS-NUMBER | PASSERINE BIRDS | EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY | MAMMALIAN SPERM | CRYPTIC FEMALE CHOICE | INTRASPECIFIC VARIATION | GENETICS & HEREDITY | FERTILIZATION SUCCESS | TESTIS SIZE | ATLANTIC SALMON | FLAGELLAR PROPULSION | LEPOMIS-MACROCHIRUS | Sperm Motility | Spermatozoa - chemistry | Sperm Tail - physiology | Birds | Cell Size | Male | Mammals | Sperm Head - chemistry | Sperm Tail - chemistry | Biological Evolution | Animals | Snails | Sperm Head - physiology | Fishes | Spermatozoa - physiology | Spermatozoa - cytology | Physiological aspects | Evolution | Spermatozoa | Motility | Research
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10. Sperm competition and the evolution of animal mating systems
by Smith, Robert L. (Robert Lloyd)
1984, ISBN 9780126525700, xxi, 687
Sexual behavior in animals | Competition (Biology) | Spermatozoa | Behavior evolution
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11. Full Text Female competition and its evolutionary consequences in mammals
by Stockley, Paula and Bro‐Jørgensen, Jakob
Biological Reviews, ISSN 1464-7931, 05/2011, Volume 86, Issue 2, pp. 341 - 366
Following Darwin's original insights regarding sexual selection, studies of intrasexual competition have mainly focused on male competition for mates; by... 
reproductive suppression | infanticide | sexual conflict | sperm limitation | sexual signalling | spite | sexual selection | sex‐dependent selection | female competition | cooperation | Sexual signalling | Sperm limitation | Sexual selection | Reproductive suppression | Cooperation | Sexual conflict | Infanticide | Sex-dependent selection | Spite | Female competition | LIFETIME REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS | sex-dependent selection | BABOONS PAPIO-CYNOCEPHALUS | RABBITS ORYCTOLAGUS-CUNICULUS | VOLE CLETHRIONOMYS-GLAREOLUS | MANDRILLS MANDRILLUS-SPHINX | HAMSTERS MESOCRICETUS-AURATUS | BIOLOGY | PAN-TROGLODYTES-SCHWEINFURTHII | COLUMBIAN GROUND-SQUIRREL | EXAGGERATED SEXUAL SWELLINGS | REINDEER RANGIFER-TARANDUS | Biological Evolution | Mammals - genetics | Sexual Behavior, Animal | Animals | Mammals - physiology | Competitive Behavior - physiology | Female | Male | Research | Females | Sexual behavior | Sexual selection in animals
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