Sperm traits negatively covary with size and asymmetry of a secondary sexual trait in a freshwater crayfish

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 8, 2012, Pages

  Galeotti, Paolo ^a   Bernini, Guido ^a   Locatello, Lisa ^b   Sacchi, Roberto ^a   Fasola, Mauro ^a   Rubolini, Diego ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUSTROPOTAMOBIUS ITALICUS; CELL VIABILITY; CHELAE ASYMMETRY; COPULATION; CRAYFISH; EJACULATE SIZE; FEMALE; LONGEVITY; MALE; MALE GENITAL TRACT PARAMETERS; MATING; NONHUMAN; SECONDARY SEX RATIO; SEXUAL SELECTION; SEXUALITY; SPERM; SPERM COMPETITION;

ANIMALS; ASTACOIDEA; FEMALE; MALE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SPERMATOZOA;

EID: 84865184587     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0043771     Document Type: Article

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