Low fertility of wild hybrid male flycatchers despite recent divergence

Biology Letters

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Alund, Murielle ^a   Immler, Simone ^a   Rice, Amber M ^b   Qvarnstrom, Anna ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b LEHIGH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Flycatcher; Hybrid; Postzygotic incompatibility; Sperm; Sterility infertility

Indexed keywords

FERTILITY; FITNESS; GENETIC VARIATION; HYBRID; MORPHOLOGY; PARENT-OFFSPRING INTERACTION; PASSERINE; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; SPERM; STERILITY; WILD POPULATION;

SWEDEN;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; FERTILITY; HYBRIDIZATION; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; SONGBIRD;

ANIMALS; FERTILITY; HYBRIDIZATION, GENETIC; MALE; SONGBIRDS;

EID: 84878206042     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2013.0169     Document Type: Article

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