Last male sperm precedence in a damselfly demonstrated by RAPD profiling

Molecular Ecology

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 449-452

  Hooper, R E ^a,b,c   Siva Jothy, M T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES   (Japan)

^c Laboratory of Wildlife Conservation   (Japan)

Author keywords

Calopteryx splendens xanthostoma; Damselflies; Random amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD); Sperm competition; Sperm precedence

Indexed keywords

DNA; PRIMER DNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CROSS BREEDING; GENETICS; INSECT; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MUSCLE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYSIOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RANDOM AMPLIFIED POLYMORPHIC DNA; SPERMATOZOON;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CROSSES, GENETIC; DNA; DNA PRIMERS; INSECTS; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUSCLES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RANDOM AMPLIFIED POLYMORPHIC DNA TECHNIQUE; SPERMATOZOA;

EID: 0030160543     PISSN: 09621083     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.1996.tb00335.x     Document Type: Article

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