The Azores bullfinch (Pyrrhula murina) has the same unusual and size-variable sperm morphology as the Eurasian bullfinch (Pyrrhula pyrrhula)

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 108, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 677-687

  Lifjeld, Jan T ^a   Hoenen, Antje ^a   Johannessen, Lars Erik ^a   Laskemoen, Terje ^a   Lopes, Ricardo J ^b   Rodrigues, Pedro ^b,c   Rowe, Melissah ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b CENTRO DE INVESTIGAÇÃO EM BIODIVERSIDADE E RECURSOS GENÉTICOS   (Portugal)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE AZORES   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Fringillidae; Passeriformes; Sperm competition; Sperm length; Sperm velocity; Testis size

Indexed keywords

DATA SET; DIVERGENCE; FITNESS; HERITABILITY; MORPHOLOGY; PASSERINE; SIZE; SPERM; SPERM COMPETITION; TAXONOMY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

AZORES; PORTUGAL; SAO MIGUEL;

EID: 84874007842     PISSN: 00244066     EISSN: 10958312     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2012.02040.x     Document Type: Article

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