Sperm midpiece length predicts sperm swimming velocity in house mice

Biology Letters

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 513-516

  Firman, Renée C ^a   Simmons, Leigh W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Ejaculate quality; Sperm competition; Sperm design; Sperm motility

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); EVOLUTIONARILY STABLE STRATEGY; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; MORPHOLOGY; RODENT; SPERM COMPETITION; SWIMMING; VELOCITY;

MUS MUSCULUS; MUS MUSCULUS DOMESTICUS;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; CELL SIZE; CROSS BREEDING; CYTOLOGY; EVOLUTION; MALE; MOUSE; PHYSIOLOGY; SPERMATOZOON; SPERMATOZOON MIDPIECE; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CELL SIZE; CROSSES, GENETIC; MALE; MICE; SPERM MIDPIECE; SPERM MOTILITY; SPERMATOZOA;

EID: 77957253998     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2009.1027     Document Type: Article

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