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Sperm morphology in two house mouse subspecies: do wild-derived strains and wild mice tell the same story?
PloS one - 1 Jan 2014
Albrechtová Jana, Albrecht Tomáš, Ďureje Ludovít, Pallazola Vincent A, Piálek Jaroslav
Abstract excerpt
Being subject to intense post-copulatory selection, sperm size is a principal determining component of male fitness. Although previous studies have presented comparative sperm size data at higher taxonomic levels, information on the evolution of sperm size within species is generally lacking. Here, we studied two house mouse subspecies, Mus musculus musculus and Mus musculus domesticus, which undergo incipient...
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