Seminal fluid mediates ejaculate competition in social insects

Science

Volumn 327, Issue 5972, 2010, Pages 1506-1509

  Den Boer, Susanne P A ^a   Baer, Boris ^b   Boomsma, Jacobus J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANT; BEE; POLYANDRY; QUEEN; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SPERM; SPERM COMPETITION;

ANT; ARTICLE; BEE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EJACULATION; INSECT SOCIETY; MALE; MATING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMINAL PLASMA; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SPECIES; SPERM; SURVIVAL;

ANIMALS; ANTS; BEES; CELL SURVIVAL; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; GENITALIA, FEMALE; GENITALIA, MALE; MALE; REPRODUCTION; SEMEN; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SPERMATOZOA;

APOIDEA; ATTA; FORMICIDAE; HEXAPODA;

EID: 77949855144     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1184709     Document Type: Article

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