Female reproductive tract form drives the evolution of complex sperm morphology

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

Volumn 109, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 4538-4543

  Higginson, Dawn M ^a,c   Miller, Kelly B ^b   Segraves, Kari A ^a   Pitnick, Scott ^a  

^a SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Genitalia; Heteromorphism; Ornaments; Sperm competition; Spermatheca

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL STRUCTURE; CONJUGATION; COPULATION; FEMALE; FEMALE GENITAL SYSTEM; FERTILIZATION; MALE; MATE CHOICE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; ORGAN SIZE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; SEXUAL SELECTION; SPERM; SPERMATOZOON;

ANIMALS; BAYES THEOREM; BEETLES; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; FEMALE; GENITALIA, FEMALE; MALE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PHYLOGENY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEX FACTORS; SPERMATOZOA;

COLEOPTERA; HYGROBIIDAE;

EID: 84858627068     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1111474109     Document Type: Article

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