Sperm Length Variation as a Predictor of Extrapair Paternity in Passerine Birds

BACKGROUND: The rate of extrapair paternity is a commonly used index for the risk of sperm competition in birds, but paternity data exist for only a few percent of the approximately 10400 extant species. As paternity analyses require extensive field sampling and costly lab work, species coverage in...

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Autores principales: Lifjeld, Jan T., Laskemoen, Terje, Kleven, Oddmund, Albrecht, Tomas, Robertson, Raleigh J.
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2010
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2956655/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20976147
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0013456

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2956655/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20976147
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0013456

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