Adaptive modulation of sperm production rate in Drosophila bifurca, a species with giant sperm

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• Publication year

  2007

• Venue

  Biology Letters

• Publication date

  2007-10-22

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1098/rsbl.2007.0219PMID 17594959PMCID PMC2391180
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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