Male mating behavior and ejaculate expenditure under sperm competition risk in the eastern mosquitofish
(2003)
Journal Article
Evans, J. P., Pierotti, M., & Pilastro, A. (2003). Male mating behavior and ejaculate expenditure under sperm competition risk in the eastern mosquitofish. Behavioral Ecology, 14(2), 268–273. https://doi.org/10.1093/beheco/14.2.268
Theory predicts that males should tailor the size of their ejaculates according to temporal changes in the risk of sperm competition. Specifically, males are predicted to allocate more sperm to each mating event with increasing risk (i.e., the probab... Read More about Male mating behavior and ejaculate expenditure under sperm competition risk in the eastern mosquitofish.