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Ejaculate Characteristics Depend on Social Environment in the Horse (Equus caballus)

Sperm competition theory predicts semen characteristics to be affected by the social environment. We used the polygamous horse (Equus caballus) to experimentally study within-subject plasticity in response to different social environments. Stallions were sequentially exposed, over a period of 8 week...

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Autores principales: Burger, Dominik, Dolivo, Guillaume, Wedekind, Claus
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4658062/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26599821
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0143185