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. 2017 Oct 31:6:e32009.
doi: 10.7554/eLife.32009.

The need for speed

Tom Pizzari  1
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The need for speed

Tom Pizzari. Elife. .

Abstract

A change in social status can quickly lead to a change in the quality of the seminal fluid produced by a male Chinook salmon as he responds to increased reproductive competition from higher-status males.

Keywords: Oncorhynchus tshawytscha; ejaculate quality; evolutionary biology; genomics; seminal fluid; social status; sperm competition; sperm velocity.

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