Seminal fluid causes temporarily reduced egg hatch in previously mated females

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 267, Issue 1439, 2000, Pages 201-203

  Prout, Timothy ^b   Clark, Andrew G ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Drosophila; Seminal fluid; Sperm competition

Indexed keywords

FLY; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; SPERM;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; DROSOPHILA; EGG; FEMALE; HATCHING; MALE; MATING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMINAL PLASMA;

ANIMALIA; DIPTERA; DROSOPHILA; INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 0004818607     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2000.0988     Document Type: Article

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