Heritability of sperm length in the bumblebee Bombus terrestris

Genetica

Volumn 127, Issue 1-3, 2006, Pages 11-23

  Baer, Boris ^a,d   De Jong, Gerdien ^b   Schmid Hempel, Regula ^c   Schmid Hempel, Paul ^c   Høeg, Jens T ^a   Boomsma, Jacobus J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c Ecology and Evolution   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bumblebees; Narrow sense heritability; Sexual selection; Social insects; Sperm competition; Sperm morphology

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BEE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BODY SIZE; CYTOLOGY; FEMALE; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; MALE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT; SPERMATOZOON;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BEES; BODY SIZE; FEMALE; MALE; MODELS, GENETIC; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT, HERITABLE; SELECTION (GENETICS); SPERMATOZOA; VARIATION (GENETICS);

BOMBUS TERRESTRIS; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 33746174224     PISSN: 00166707     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10709-005-2157-1     Document Type: Article

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