High temperatures reveal cryptic genetic variation in a polymorphic female sperm storage organ

Evolution

Volumn 65, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 2830-2842

  Berger, David ^a   Bauerfeind, Stephanie Sandra ^a,b   Blanckenhorn, Wolf Ulrich ^a   Schäfer, Martin Andreas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GREIFSWALD   (Germany)

Author keywords

Canalization; Developmental plasticity; Population genetics; Quantitative genetics; Reproductive morphology; Sexual selection

Indexed keywords

CANALIZATION (BIOLOGY); DRAGONFLY; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; GENETIC VARIATION; GROWTH RATE; HIGH TEMPERATURE; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; MORPHOLOGY; PHENOTYPE; POLYMORPHISM; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REPRODUCTIVE ISOLATION; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; SEXUAL SELECTION; SPERM COMPETITION;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; FEMALE; FLY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; HISTOLOGY; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCTION; SPERMATOZOON; TEMPERATURE;

ANIMALS; DIPTERA; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIATION; MALE; REPRODUCTION; SPERMATOZOA; TEMPERATURE;

SCATHOPHAGA STERCORARIA;

EID: 80053459614     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: 15585646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2011.01392.x     Document Type: Article

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