Intraspecific divergence in sperm morphology of the green sea urchin, Strongylocentrotus droebachiensis: Implications for selection in broadcast spawners

BMC Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2008, Pages

  Manier, Mollie K ^a,b   Palumbi, Stephen R ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AXONEME; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MALE; MICROSATELLITE MARKER; MORPHOLOGICAL TRAIT; NONHUMAN; POPULATION GENETICS; QUANTITATIVE GENETICS; SEA URCHIN; SPAWNING; SPERMATOZOON; ANIMAL; CLASSIFICATION; CYTOLOGY; GENETIC SELECTION; HISTOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STRONGYLOCENTROTUS;

ECHINOIDEA; STRONGYLOCENTROTUS DROEBACHIENSIS;

ANIMALS; MALE; SELECTION (GENETICS); SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SPERM HEAD; SPERMATOZOA; STRONGYLOCENTROTUS;

EID: 58149306016     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712148     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-8-283     Document Type: Article

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