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Postcopulatory Sexual Selection Results in Spermatozoa with More Uniform Head and Flagellum Sizes in Rodents

Interspecific comparative studies have shown that, in most taxa, postcopulatory sexual selection (PCSS) in the form of sperm competition drives the evolution of longer and faster swimming sperm. Work on passserine birds has revealed that PCSS also reduces variation in sperm size between males at the...

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Autores principales: Varea-Sánchez, María, Gómez Montoto, Laura, Tourmente, Maximiliano, Roldan, Eduardo R. S.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4171531/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25243923
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0108148