Female presence influences sperm velocity in the guppy

Biology Letters

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 792-794

  Gasparini, Clelia ^a   Peretti, Alfredo V ^b   Pilastro, Andrea ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE CÓRDOBA   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Post copulatory sexual selection; Sperm competition; Sperm priming

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEM; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SEXUAL SELECTION; SPERM; SPERM COMPETITION; TELEOST;

POECILIA RETICULATA;

EID: 74549194990     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2009.0413     Document Type: Article

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