Biases in sperm use in the mallard: No evidence for selection by females based on sperm genotype

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 266, Issue 1422, 1999, Pages 905-910

  Cunningham, Emma J A ^a,c   Cheng, Kimberly M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Mallard; Paternity; Post insemination choice; Sperm competition

Indexed keywords

FERTILIZATION (REPRODUCTION); GENOTYPE; SELECTION; SPERM; WATERFOWL;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; COPULATION; DUCK; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; GENOTYPE; MALE; MATING; NONHUMAN; PATERNITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPERM;

ANAS PLATYRHYNCHOS; ANAS SP.; ANATIDAE; ANIMALIA; ANSERIFORMES; AVES; PLATYRHYNCHOS;

EID: 0033532141     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.1999.0722     Document Type: Article

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