Individual, temporal, and seasonal variation in sperm concentration in tree swallows

Condor

Volumn 104, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 803-810

  Lombardo, Michael P ^a   Forman, Armetris N ^a   Czarnowki, Matthew R ^b   Thorpe, Patrick A ^a  

^a GRAND VALLEY STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Sperm competition; Sperm concentration; Tachycineta bicolor; Tree Swallow

Indexed keywords

TACHYCINETA; TACHYCINETA BICOLOR;

EID: 9744240776     PISSN: 00105422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1650/0010-5422(2002)104[0803:ITASVI]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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