The evolution of expenditure on testes
Abstract
Evolutionary theory for expenditure on gonads attracted little attention until studies in the past 3–4 decades of allocation to male and female function in hermaphrodites, and of relative testes size (RTS) in animals with separate sexes. RTS appears to have varied enormously over evolutionary time, from extremely high (over 40%) in some broadcast spawners to less than 1% in some taxa with copulation and internal fertilization. Reasons for this...
Paper Details
Title
The evolution of expenditure on testes
Published Date
Jan 1, 2016
Journal
Volume
298
Issue
1
Pages
3 - 19
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