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Maintenance of Sperm Variation in a Highly Promiscuous Wild Bird

Postcopulatory sexual selection is an important force in the evolution of reproductive traits, including sperm morphology. In birds, sperm morphology is known to be highly heritable and largely condition-independent. Theory predicts, and recent comparative work corroborates, that strong selection in...

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Autores principales: Calhim, Sara, Double, Michael C., Margraf, Nicolas, Birkhead, Tim R., Cockburn, Andrew
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3240631/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22194918
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0028809