Sperm of colourful males are better protected against oxidative stress

Ecology Letters

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 213-222

  Helfenstein, Fabrice ^a   Losdat, Sylvain ^a   Møller, Anders Pape ^b,c   Blount, Jonathan D ^d   Richner, Heinz ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SUD   (France)

^c Center for Advanced Study   (Norway)

^d UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Carotenoid based colour; Carotenoids; Lipid peroxidation; Oxidative stress; Parus major; Sperm motility; Sperm quality; Sperm velocity

Indexed keywords

CAROTENOID; FERTILITY; FREE RADICAL; LIPID; MOTILITY; PASSERINE; PLUMAGE; SPERM; SWIMMING;

PARUS MAJOR;

EID: 74549173571     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: 14610248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2009.01419.x     Document Type: Article

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