Resolving variation in the reproductive tradeoff between sperm size and number

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

Volumn 108, Issue 13, 2011, Pages 5325-5330

  Immler, Simone ^a,b   Pitnick, Scott ^c   Parker, Geoff A ^d   Durrant, Kate L ^c   Lüpold, Stefan ^c   Calhim, Sara ^e   Birkhead, Tim R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^e QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Dilution effect; Sperm allocation

Indexed keywords

CONFERENCE PAPER; DROSOPHILA; EJACULATION; FEMALE GENITAL SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SPERM COMPETITION;

ANIMALIA; AVES; DROSOPHILIDAE; PASSERIFORMES;

EID: 79955095442     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1009059108     Document Type: Article

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