Competition drives cooperation among closely related sperm of deer mice

Nature

Volumn 463, Issue 7282, 2010, Pages 801-803

  Fisher, Heidi S ^a   Hoekstra, Hopi E ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; FITNESS; NATURAL SELECTION; RELATEDNESS; RODENT; SPERM; SPERM COMPETITION;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL AGGREGATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; COOPERATION; HEREDITY; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PEROMYSCUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPERM COMPETITION; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY;

ANIMALS; CELL AGGREGATION; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; COPULATION; FEMALE; MALE; PEROMYSCUS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SPERM MOTILITY; SPERMATOZOA;

PEROMYSCUS; PEROMYSCUS MANICULATUS; PEROMYSCUS POLIONOTUS;

EID: 76749104240     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature08736     Document Type: Article

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