Mating behavior and the evolution of sperm design

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 108, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1490-1495

  Schärer, Lukas ^a   Littlewood, D Timothy J ^b   Waeschenbach, Andrea ^b   Yoshida, Wataru ^c   Vizoso, Dita B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^c HIROSAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Platyhelminthes; Sexually antagonistic coevolution; Simultaneous hermaphrodite; Sperm morphology; Traumatic insemination

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INSEMINATION; BIOLOGICAL TRAIT; CELL STRUCTURE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EPIDERMIS; EPITHELIUM; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; HERMAPHRODITIC SPECIES; MACROSTOMUM; MALE; MATING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECIPIENT; SPERM; SPERM DONOR;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; DNA, HELMINTH; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; FEMALE; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PLATYHELMINTHS; REPRODUCTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SPERMATOZOA;

ANIMALIA; MACROSTOMUM; PLATYHELMINTHES;

EID: 79952144199     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1013892108     Document Type: Article

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