Lack of sperm storage by female migrants and the significance of copulations en route

Condor

Volumn 98, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 414-417

  Briskie, James V ^a,b  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

copulation behavior; Manitoba; migrant warblers; Sperm storage; sperm storage tubules

Indexed keywords

EID: 0029786728     PISSN: 00105422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1369159     Document Type: Article

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