Sperm Competition
Friday, June 24, 2011 - 06:50
in Biology & Nature
The term sperm competition can be used in two ways. In the broad sense, it involves a large range of morphological, behavioural and physiological attributes, including courtship and copulation behavior (for example, a male that guards females to ensure that he’s the father). In the narrow sense, which is the focus of this article, sperm competition is used to denote the physiological processes occurring inside the female’s genital organs after multiple matings.(For a brief review on the complexity of sperm selection, see Wigby and Chapman, 2004).read more