Predicting variation in sperm precedence

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 352, Issue 1355, 1997, Pages 771-780

  Cook, Penny A ^a,b   Harvey, Ian F ^a   Parker, Geoffrey A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EJACULATE; REPRODUCTIVE INVESTMENT; SPERM COMPETITION; SPERM PRECEDENCE;

LEPIDOPTERA; PLODIA INTERPUNCTELLA; PYRALIDAE;

EID: 0030794381     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.1997.0061     Document Type: Article

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