Is the production of multiple sperm types adaptive?

Evolution

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 797-808

  Snook, Rhonda R ^a,b  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Drosophila obscura species group; Nonfertilizing sperm; Phylogenetic autoregression; Sperm heteromorphism; Sperm length

Indexed keywords

PHYLOGENY; SPERM HETEROMORPHISM; SPERM LENGTH;

DIPTERA; DROSOPHILA OBSCURA; DROSOPHILIDAE; OBSCURA GROUP;

EID: 0030737563     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.1997.tb03662.x     Document Type: Article

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