Resolving mechanisms of competitive fertilization success in drosophila Melanogaster

Science

Volumn 328, Issue 5976, 2010, Pages 354-357

  Manier, Mollie K ^a   Belote, John M ^a   Berben, Kirstin S ^a   Novikov, David ^a   Stuart, Will T ^a   Pitnick, Scott ^a  

^a SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; RED FLUORESCENT PROTEIN;

FLY; GENETICALLY MODIFIED ORGANISM; REPRODUCTIVE BIOLOGY; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; SEXUAL SELECTION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SPERM COMPETITION;

ARTICLE; COPULATION; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EJACULATION; FEMALE; FEMALE GENITAL SYSTEM; FERTILIZATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEXUAL SELECTION; SPERM PRESERVATION; SPERMATOZOON; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; TRANSGENIC ORGANISM; WILD TYPE;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; COPULATION; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; GENITALIA, FEMALE; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; MALE; MATING PREFERENCE, ANIMAL; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SPERM HEAD; SPERM MOTILITY; SPERMATOZOA;

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER;

EID: 77951184173     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1187096     Document Type: Article

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