Fertilization Is Not a New Beginning: The Relationship between Sperm Longevity and Offspring Performance

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 11, 2012, Pages

  Crean, Angela J ^a,b   Dwyer, John M ^a,c   Marshall, Dustin J ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^d MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EJACULATION; FERTILIZATION; FITNESS; HATCHING; INVERTEBRATE; LARVA; LONGEVITY; NONHUMAN; PERFORMANCE; PHENOTYPE; PROGENY; REPRODUCTION; SPERM; STYELA PLICATA;

ANIMALS; CHORDATA, NONVERTEBRATE; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; MALE; METAMORPHOSIS, BIOLOGICAL; SPERM COUNT; SPERM MOTILITY; SPERMATOZOA;

INVERTEBRATA; STYELA PLICATA;

EID: 84869108030     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0049167     Document Type: Article

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