Resolving variation in the reproductive tradeoff between sperm size and number.

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Published in Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A on March 14, 2011

Authors

Simone Immler1, Scott Pitnick, Geoff A Parker, Kate L Durrant, Stefan Lüpold, Sara Calhim, Tim R Birkhead

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield, Western Bank, Sheffield S10 2TN, United Kingdom. simone.immler@ebc.uu.se

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