Do male secondary sexual characters signal ejaculate quality? A meta-analysis

Mautz, Brian; Moller, Anders P.; Jennions, Michael

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Do male secondary sexual characters signal ejaculate quality? A meta-analysis

Date

2013

Authors

Mautz, Brian

Moller, Anders P.

Jennions, Michael

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Abstract

There are two reasons why researchers are interested in the phenotypic relationship between the expression of male secondary sexual characters (SSCs) and 'ejaculate quality' (defined as sperm/ejaculate traits that are widely assumed to increase female fer