Evolution: The Paradox of Sperm Leviathans

Current Biology

Volumn 16, Issue 12, 2006, Pages

  Pizzari, Tommaso ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; CELL SIZE; DROSOPHILA; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; GENETIC SELECTION; HISTOLOGY; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCTION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SHORT SURVEY; SPERMATOZOON; TESTIS; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; CELL SIZE; DROSOPHILA; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; MALE; REPRODUCTION; SELECTION (GENETICS); SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SPERMATOZOA; TESTIS;

DROSOPHILA BIFURCA;

EID: 33745002235     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2006.05.031     Document Type: Short Survey

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