Sperm competitiveness in frogs: Slow and steady wins the race

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 276, Issue 1675, 2009, Pages 3955-3961

  Dziminski, Martin A ^a   Dale Roberts, J ^a   Beveridge, Maxine ^a   Simmons, Leigh W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Frogs; Genetic compatibility; Polyandry; Sperm competition; Sperm length; Sperm velocity

Indexed keywords

FROG; GENETIC VARIATION; LONGEVITY; MORPHOLOGY; POLYANDRY; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; SELECTION; SPERM COMPETITION; SWIMMING;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; FROG; GENETIC COMPATIBILITY; GENETIC SIMILARITY; LONGEVITY; MALE; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OOCYTE; POLYANDRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPERM COMPETITION; SPERMATOZOON MIGRATION; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; SWIMMING; VELOCITY;

ANURA; CRINIA GEORGIANA; MYOBATRACHIDAE;

EID: 72749088717     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2009.1334     Document Type: Article

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