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Polyandry in the medfly - shifts in paternity mediated by sperm stratification and mixing

BACKGROUND: In the Mediterranean fruit fly (medfly), Ceratitis capitata, a highly invasive agricultural pest species, polyandry, associated with sperm precedence, is a recurrent behaviour in the wild. The absence of tools for the unambiguous discrimination between competing sperm from different male...

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Autores principales: Scolari, Francesca, Yuval, Boaz, Gomulski, Ludvik M, Schetelig, Marc F, Gabrieli, Paolo, Bassetti, Federico, Wimmer, Ernst A, Malacrida, Anna R, Gasperi, Giuliano
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4255777/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25470981
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2156-15-S2-S10