Mechanisms underlying the sperm quality advantage in Drosophila melanogaster

Evolution

Volumn 60, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 2064-2080

  Pattarini, James M ^a   Starmer, William T ^a   Bjork, Adam ^a   Pitnick, Scott ^a  

^a SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cryptic female choice; Postcopulatory sexual selection; Sperm competition; Sperm quality; Sperm size

Indexed keywords

EVOLUTIONARY THEORY; FLY; REPRODUCTIVE COST; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; SEXUAL SELECTION; SPERM COMPETITION;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CELL SIZE; CYTOLOGY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; SPERMATOZOON; SPERMATOZOON COUNT; SPERMATOZOON TAIL;

ANIMALS; CELL SIZE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; MALE; SPERM COUNT; SPERM TAIL; SPERMATOZOA;

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER;

EID: 33751311557     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: 15585646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1554/06-142.1     Document Type: Article

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