Patterns of sperm precedence and predictors of paternity in the Trinidadian guppy

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 268, Issue 1468, 2001, Pages 719-724

  Evans, J P ^a   Magurran, A E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Guppies; Poecilia reticulata; Poeciliid; Sperm competition

Indexed keywords

FISH; PATERNITY; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; SPERM COMPETITION;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; COPULATION; FERTILITY; FISH; NONHUMAN; PATERNITY TEST; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SPERMATOZOON COUNT; SPERMATOZOON PENETRATION;

ANIMALIA; POECILIA RETICULATA; POECILIIDAE; SIGMOIDEA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0035820301     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2000.1577     Document Type: Article

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