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No Evidence for Pre-Copulatory Sexual Selection on Sperm Length in a Passerine Bird

There is growing evidence that post-copulatory sexual selection, mediated by sperm competition, influences the evolution of sperm phenotypes. Evidence for pre-copulatory sexual selection effects on sperm traits, on the other hand, is rather scarce. A recent paper on the pied flycatcher, Ficedula hyp...

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Autores principales: Lifjeld, Jan T., Laskemoen, Terje, Kleven, Oddmund, Pedersen, A. Tiril M., Lampe, Helene M., Rudolfsen, Geir, Schmoll, Tim, Slagsvold, Tore
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3287978/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22384277
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0032611