Multiple deleterious effects of experimentally aged sperm in a monogamous bird

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 105, Issue 37, 2008, Pages 13947-13952

  White, Joël ^a,b,c   Wagner, Richard H ^c   Helfenstein, Fabrice ^d   Hatch, Scott A ^e   Mulard, Hervé ^a   Naves, Liliana C ^a   Danchin, Etienne ^a,b  

^a SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^b École Nationale de Formation Agronomique   (France)

^c KONRAD LORENZ INSTITUTE FOR ETHOLOGY   (Austria)

^d Zoological Institute   (Switzerland)

^e U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

Egg development; Fertility; Reproduction; Sperm competition; Sperm senescence

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIRD; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPULATION; EGG LAYING; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYO MORTALITY; FERTILITY; FERTILIZATION; HATCHING; MALE; MONOGAMY; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; SENESCENCE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SPERM; SPERM AGING; SPERM COMPETITION; SPERMATOZOON;

ANIMALS; CELL AGING; CHARADRIIFORMES; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; FEMALE; INSEMINATION; MALE; OVUM; PROBABILITY; SPERMATOZOA;

AVES; LARUS; RISSA TRIDACTYLA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 52949131889     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0803067105     Document Type: Article

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