Slow fertilization of stickleback eggs: The result of sexual conflict?

BMC Ecology

Volumn 6, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Bakker, Theo C M ^a   Zbinden, Marc ^a,c   Frommen, Joachim G ^a   Weiss, Alexander ^a   Largiadèr, Carlo R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^c Schweizerische Nationalfonds SNF   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GASTEROSTEUS ACULEATUS; PISCES;

ANIMAL; CELL SURVIVAL; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SMEGMAMORPHA; SPERMATOZOON; TIME;

ANIMALS; CELL SURVIVAL; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; MALE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SMEGMAMORPHA; SPERMATOZOA; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 33745323193     PISSN: 14726785     EISSN: 14726785     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6785-6-7     Document Type: Article

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