La competencia impulsa la cooperación entre los espermatozoides de ratones ciervo estrechamente relacionados

Heidi S Fisher1, Hopi E Hoekstra

  • 1Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA. hfisher@oeb.harvard.edu

Nature
|January 22, 2010
PubMed
Resumen

Los espermatozoides de ratones ciervo promiscuos cooperan con sus parientes más cercanos, un comportamiento impulsado por la competencia de espermatozoides. Esta discriminación mejora la velocidad de natación de los espermatozoides y la ventaja competitiva.

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