Three centuries of sperm research

Sperm Biology

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 1-42

  Birkhead, Tim R ^a   Montgomerie, Robert ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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