Response to selection and realized heritability of sperm length in the yellow dung fly (Scathophaga stercoraria)

Heredity

Volumn 104, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 61-66

  Dobler, R ^a,c   Hosken, D J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; FERTILITY; FLY; GENETIC VARIATION; HERITABILITY; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; INTRASPECIFIC COMPETITION; PHYLOGENETICS; SPERM COMPETITION;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; FEMALE; FERTILITY; FLY; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; MALE; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION GENETICS; SPERMATOZOON;

ANIMALS; DIPTERA; FEMALE; FERTILITY; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS, POPULATION; MALE; POPULATION DENSITY; SELECTION, GENETIC; SPERMATOZOA;

SCATHOPHAGA STERCORARIA;

EID: 73349108785     PISSN: 0018067X     EISSN: 13652540     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/hdy.2009.93     Document Type: Article

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