By hook or by crook? Morphometry, competition and cooperation in rodent sperm

PLoS ONE

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2007, Pages

  Immler, Simone ^a   Moore, Harry D M ^a   Breed, William G ^b   Birkhead, Tim R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL SHAPE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIMENTAL RAT; HOOK SHAPE; MALE; MORPHOMETRICS; NONHUMAN; RAT; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SPERM COMPETITION; SPERMATOZOON; SPERMATOZOON DENSITY; TESTIS SIZE; TESTIS WEIGHT; ANIMAL; CYTOLOGY; EVOLUTION; HISTOLOGY; MOUSE; PHYSIOLOGY; RODENT; TESTIS; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

APODEMUS SYLVATICUS; MURIDAE; MURINAE; RODENTIA;

ANIMALS; EVOLUTION; MALE; MICE; RATS; RODENTIA; SPERM HEAD; SPERMATOZOA; TESTIS;

EID: 37549059657     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0000170     Document Type: Article

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