Sperm competition: Linking form to function

BMC Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2008, Pages

  Humphries, Stuart ^a   Evans, Jonathan P ^b   Simmons, Leigh W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIRD; CELL SIZE; CHEMISTRY; CYTOLOGY; EVOLUTION; FISH; MALE; MAMMAL; PHYSIOLOGY; SNAIL; SPERMATOZOON; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; SPERMATOZOON TAIL;

ANIMALS; BIRDS; CELL SIZE; EVOLUTION; FISHES; MALE; MAMMALS; SNAILS; SPERM HEAD; SPERM MOTILITY; SPERM TAIL; SPERMATOZOA;

EID: 59049084495     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712148     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-8-319     Document Type: Article

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