The bold and the sperm: positive association between boldness and sperm number in the guppy
Assessing the consequences of personality traits on reproductive success is one of the most important challenges in personality studies and critical to understand the evolutionary implications of behavioural variability among animals. Personality traits are typically associated with mating acquisiti...
Main Authors: | Clelia Gasparini, Elizabeth M. Speechley, Giovanni Polverino |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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The Royal Society
2019-07-01
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Series: | Royal Society Open Science |
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Online Access: | https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/pdf/10.1098/rsos.190474 |
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