Differential sperm storage by female zebra finches Taeniopygia guttata
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Differential sperm storage by female zebra finches Taeniopygia guttata
When females mate promiscuously, female sperm storage provides scope to bias the fertilization success towards particular males via the non-random acceptance and utilization of sperm. The difficulties observing post-copulatory processes within the female reproductive tract mean that the mechanisms underlying cryptic female choice remain poorly understood. Here, we use zebra finches Taeniopygia ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
سال: 2017
ISSN: 0962-8452,1471-2954
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2017.1032