Highly variable sperm precedence in the stalk-eyed fly, Teleopsis dalmanni

BMC Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 6, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Corley, Laura S ^a,b   Cotton, Samuel ^a   McConnell, Ellen ^a   Chapman, Tracey ^a   Fowler, Kevin ^a   Pomiankowski, Andrew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; FLY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; INTRASPECIFIC VARIATION; MALE; MICROSATELLITE MARKER; NONHUMAN; PATERNITY; POPULATION; PROGENY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SPERM; SPERM COMPETITION; TELEOPSIS DALMANNI; ANIMAL; DIPTERA; GENETICS; INSEMINATION; PHYSIOLOGY; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SPERMATOZOON;

DIOPSIDAE; TELEOPSIS DALMANNI;

MICROSATELLITE DNA;

ANIMALS; DIPTERA; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; GENOTYPE; INSEMINATION; MALE; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SPERMATOZOA;

EID: 33747330360     PISSN: 14712148     EISSN: 14712148     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-6-53     Document Type: Article

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