Journal article
Male Sex Drive and the Maintenance of Sex: Evidence from Drosophila
Abstract
The resolution of the paradoxes surrounding the evolutionary origins and maintenance of sexual reproduction has been a major focus in biology. The operation of sexual selection-which is very common among multicellular organisms-has been proposed as an important factor in the maintenance of sex, though in order for this hypothesis to hold, the strength of sexual selection must be stronger in males than in females. Sexual selection poses its own …
Authors
Singh RS; Artieri CG
Journal
Journal of Heredity, Vol. 101, No. suppl_1, pp. s100–s106
Publisher
Oxford University Press (OUP)
Publication Date
March 1, 2010
DOI
10.1093/jhered/esq006
ISSN
0022-1503