Why is intelligence correlated with semen quality?: Biochemical pathways common to sperm and neuron function and their vulnerability to pleiotropic mutations

Communicative and Integrative Biology

Volumn 2, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 385-387

  Pierce, Arand ^a   Miller, Geoffrey ^b   Arden, Rosalind ^c   Gottfredson, Linda S ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^c KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

Fertility; Fitness; Intelligence; Neuron; Semen quality; Sperm

Indexed keywords

EID: 77951274334     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19420889     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4161/cib.2.5.8716     Document Type: Article

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