Artificial selection and heritability of sperm length in Gryllus bimaculatus

Heredity

Volumn 87, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 356-362

  Morrow, E H ^a   Gage, M J G ^a  

^a UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Artificial selection; Gryllus bimaculatus; Heritability; Sperm competition; Sperm length

Indexed keywords

HERITABILITY; SELECTION; SPERM;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; FERTILITY; GRYLLIDAE; MALE; SELECTION (GENETICS); SPERMATOZOA;

GRYLLUS BIMACULATUS; INSECTA;

EID: 0035214505     PISSN: 0018067X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2540.2001.00921.x     Document Type: Article

References (38)

1. Nestling diet, secondary sexual traits and fitness in the zebra finch
2. Nutritional correlates of reproductive success of male Mediterranean fruit flies (Diptera: Tephritidae)
3. Strain differences in the morphology of the gametes of the mouse
4. Sperm size and sperm competition in birds
5. Coadaptation and taxonomic differentiation of sperm and spermathecae in featherwing beetles
6. The sperms of the British Muridae
7. Associations between body size, mating pattern, testis size and sperm lengths across butterflies
8. Sperm size or numbers? Effects of nutritional stress upon eupyrene and apyrene sperm production strategies in the moth Plodia interpunctella (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae)
9. Sperm morphometry in the Atlantic salmon
10. Sperm competition influences sperm size in mammals
11. 2 progenies
12. The estimation of heritability by regression of offspring on parent
13. Larger sperm outcompete smaller sperm in the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans
14. Evolution of sperm size in nematodes: Sperm competition favours larger sperm
15. Biometrical studies of head lengths of human spermatozoa
16. The evolution of sperm length in moths
17. Consistent significant variation between individual males in spermatozoal morphometry
18. Natural selection and the heritability of fitness components
19. Fertility in the male rabbit III. Estimation of spermatozoan quality by mixed insemination, and inheritance of spermatozoan characters
20. Sperm storage in the yellow dung fly Scathophaga stercoraria: Identifying the sperm of competing males in separate female spermathecae
21. Sperm competition and its evolutionary consequences in the insects
22. Delayed male maturity is a cost of producing large sperm in Drosophila
23. Evolution of multiple kinds of female sperm-storage organs in Drosophila
24. Coevolution of sperm and female reproductive tract morphology in stalk-eyed flies
25. Intraspecific variation in sperm competition success in the bulb mite: A role for sperm size
26. Sex linkage among genes controlling sexually selected traits
27. Inter-male competition and mating success in the field cricket, Gryllus bimaculatus (De Geer)
28. Sperm competition in fishes: The evolution of testes size and ejaculate characteristics
29. The effects of dietary protein deficiency on rat testicular function
30. Intraspecific variation in sperm size characters
31. Sperm length is heritable and sex-linked in the yellow dung fly Scathophaga stercoraria
32. Observations of the seminal micropathology of bulls
33. Selection for the length of the spermatozoan midpiece in the mouse
34. Inheritance of midpiece length in mouse spermatozoa