Why do male house mice have such small testes?

Zoological Science

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 17-23

  Frynta, Daniel ^a   Slábova, Markéta ^a,b   Vohralík, Vladimír ^a  

^a CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH BOHEMIA   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Commensalism; Middle East; Mus macedonicus; Mus musculus; Mus spicilegus; Mus spretus; Sperm competition; Testes size; Wild mice

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; DEMOGRAPHY; HISTOLOGY; MALE; MOUSE; ORGAN SIZE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TESTIS;

ANIMALS; DEMOGRAPHY; MALE; MICE; ORGAN SIZE; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TESTIS;

MUS; MUS MACEDONICUS; MUS MUSCULUS; MUS MUSCULUS MUSCULUS; MUS SPICILEGUS; MUS SPRETUS;

EID: 60949095962     PISSN: 02890003     EISSN: 02890003     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2108/zsj.26.17     Document Type: Article

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