Cooperation: The Secret Society of Sperm

Current Biology

Volumn 20, Issue 7, 2010, Pages

  Foster, Kevin R ^a   Pizzari, Tommaso ^b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CELL COMMUNICATION; FEMALE; FERTILITY; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETICS; MALE; PEROMYSCUS; PHYSIOLOGY; SHORT SURVEY; SPERMATOZOON;

ANIMALS; CELL COMMUNICATION; FEMALE; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PEROMYSCUS; SELECTION, GENETIC; SPERM-OVUM INTERACTIONS; SPERMATOZOA;

EID: 77950511373     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2010.02.015     Document Type: Short Survey

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