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Method matters: Experimental evidence for shorter avian sperm in faecal compared to abdominal massage samples

Birds are model organisms in sperm biology. Previous work in zebra finches, suggested that sperm sampled from males' faeces and ejaculates do not differ in size. Here, we tested this assumption in a captive population of house sparrows, Passer domesticus. We compared sperm length in samples fro...

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Autores principales: Girndt, Antje, Cockburn, Glenn, Sánchez-Tójar, Alfredo, Løvlie, Hanne, Schroeder, Julia
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5559096/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28813481
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0182853