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Heritable determinants of male fertilization success in the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans

BACKGROUND: Sperm competition is a driving force in the evolution of male sperm characteristics in many species. In the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans, larger male sperm evolve under experimentally increased sperm competition and larger male sperm outcompete smaller hermaphrodite sperm for fertiliz...

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Autores principales: Murray, Rosalind L, Kozlowska, Joanna L, Cutter, Asher D
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3096603/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21492473
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2148-11-99