Maintenance of sperm variation in a highly promiscuous wild bird

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 12, 2011, Pages

  Calhim, Sara ^a   Double, Michael C ^b,c   Margraf, Nicolas ^c   Birkhead, Tim R ^d   Cockburn, Andrew ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^b AUSTRALIAN ANTARCTIC DIVISION   (Australia)

^c AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BIRD; CELL STRUCTURE; COPULATION; FEMALE FERTILITY; MALE; MALURUS CYANEUS; NONHUMAN; PATERNITY; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; SEXUAL SELECTION; SPERM; SPERMATOZOON; SPERMATOZOON TAIL; WILD ANIMAL; ANIMAL; CYTOLOGY; FEMALE; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCTION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SONGBIRD;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; FEMALE; MALE; REPRODUCTION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SONGBIRDS; SPERMATOZOA;

EID: 83455168899     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0028809     Document Type: Article

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