Sperm competition risk or cryptic female choice: why are male mammals stimulating?
Informations
- Funding country
United Kingdom- Acronym
- -
- URL
- -
- Start date
- 10/1/2001
- End date
- 12/31/2002
- Budget
- 44,620 EUR
Fundings
| Name | Role | Start | End | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Small Grants | Grant | - | - | - |
Organisations
| Name | Role | Start | End |
|---|---|---|---|
| University of Liverpool | Lead Partner | - | - |
Abstract
The project will explore the function of prolonged copulatory stimulation by male mammals. A new hypothesis that prolonged copulatory stimulation functions to reduce sperm competition risk will be tested against the idea that it is a form of copulatory co