Linking sperm length and velocity: The importance of intramale variation

Biology Letters

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 797-799

  Fitzpatrick, John L ^a   Garcia Gonzalez, Francisco ^a   Evans, Jonathan P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Free spawning; Sexual selection; Sperm competition; Sperm length; Sperm morphology; Sperm swimming speed

Indexed keywords

ECHINODERM; FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY; INTRASPECIFIC VARIATION; LENGTH-FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; SEXUAL SELECTION; SPAWNING; SPERM COMPETITION;

ECHINOIDEA; HELIOCIDARIS ERYTHROGRAMMA;

EID: 78649850902     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2010.0231     Document Type: Article

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