Sperm competition and sperm length in shorebirds

Condor

Volumn 101, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 848-854

  Johnson, Dominic D P ^a   Briskie, James V ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Charadrii; Mating systems; Sperm competition; Sperm morphology

Indexed keywords

CHARADRII; CHARADRIIDAE; JACANIDAE; SCOLOPACIDAE; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0032711790     PISSN: 00105422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1370074     Document Type: Article

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