No detectable fertility benefit from a single additional mating in wild stalk-eyed flies

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 12, 2010, Pages

  Harley, Elisabeth ^a   Fowler, Kevin ^a   Cotton, Samuel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPULATION; FEMALE FERTILITY; FEMALE INFERTILITY; FERTILIZATION; FLY; MATING SUCCESS; MATING TYPE; NONHUMAN; SPERM; TELEOPSIS DALMANNI; WILD TYPE; X CHROMOSOME; ANIMAL; FEMALE; FERTILITY; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETICS; MALE; MEIOSIS; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCTION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR;

DIOPSIDAE; HEXAPODA; TELEOPSIS DALMANNI;

ANIMALS; DIPTERA; FEMALE; FERTILITY; MALE; MEIOSIS; REPRODUCTION; SELECTION, GENETIC; SEX FACTORS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL;

EID: 78650786034     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0014309     Document Type: Article

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