Evolution of testicular architecture in the Drosophilidae: A role for sperm length

BMC Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2008, Pages

  Schärer, Lukas ^a,c   Da Lage, Jean Luc ^b   Joly, Dominique ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^b France and University of Paris Sud   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DROSOPHILA; EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; SPERM; SPERMATOCYTE; SPERMATOGENESIS; TESTIS DEVELOPMENT; ANIMAL; CYTOLOGY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENETICS; HISTOLOGY; MALE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; SPERMATOZOON; SPERMATOZOON COUNT; TESTIS;

DROSOPHILIDAE;

ANIMALS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILIDAE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; MALE; PHYLOGENY; SPERM COUNT; SPERMATOCYTES; SPERMATOZOA; TESTIS;

EID: 44349132041     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712148     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-8-143     Document Type: Article

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