Testing a post-copulatory pre-zygotic reproductive barrier in a passerine species pair

Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

Volumn 68, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 1133-1144

  Cramer, Emily R A ^a   Laskemoen, Terje ^a   Eroukhmanoff, Fabrice ^a   Haas, Fredrik ^a,b   Hermansen, Jo S ^a   Lifjeld, Jan T ^a   Rowe, Melissah ^a   Sætre, Glenn Peter ^a   Johnsen, Arild ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Post copulatory sexual selection; Speciation; Sperm competition; Sperm motility

Indexed keywords

ALLOPATRY; COPULATION; MOTILITY; PASSERINE; PHENOTYPE; SEXUAL SELECTION; SPECIATION (BIOLOGY); SPERM;

AVES; PASSER DOMESTICUS; PASSER HISPANIOLENSIS; PASSERI; PASSERIFORMES;

EID: 84902550890     PISSN: 03405443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00265-014-1724-9     Document Type: Article

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