A Sterile Sperm Caste Protects Brother Fertile Sperm from Female-Mediated Death in Drosophila pseudoobscura

Current Biology

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 292-296

  Holman, Luke ^a   Snook, Rhonda R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

EVO_ECOL

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CELL DEATH; CYTOLOGY; DROSOPHILA; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; FEMALE GENITAL SYSTEM; FERTILITY; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; SPERMATOZOON;

ANIMALS; CELL DEATH; DROSOPHILA; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; FERTILITY; GENITALIA, FEMALE; MALE; SPERMATOZOA;

DROSOPHILA PSEUDOOBSCURA;

EID: 39249084685     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2008.01.048     Document Type: Article

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