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Heritability of sperm length in the bumblebee Bombus terrestris.
Genetica - 1 May 2006
Baer Boris, de Jong Gerdien, Schmid-Hempel Regula, Schmid-Hempel Paul, Høeg Jens T, Boomsma Jacobus J
Abstract excerpt
Sperm length is highly variable, both between and within species, but the evolutionary significance of this variation is poorly understood. Sexual selection on sperm length requires a significant additive genetic variance, but few studies have actually measured this. Here we present the first estimates of narrow sense heritability of sperm length in a social insect, the bumblebee Bombus terrestris. In spite of a...
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