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A trade-off between thickness and length in the zebra finch sperm mid-piece
The sperm mid-piece has traditionally been considered to be the engine that powers sperm. Larger mid-pieces have therefore been assumed to provide greater energetic capacity. However, in the zebra finch Taeniopygia guttata, a recent study showed a surprising negative relationship between mid-piece l...
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| Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
| Lenguaje: | English |
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The Royal Society
2018
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| Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6083248/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30051869 http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2018.0865 |