Not every sperm counts: Male fertility in solitary bees, Osmia cornuta.

Reproductive strategies can act as strong selective forces on reproductive traits of male insects, resulting in species-specific variation in sperm quantity and viability. For solitary bees, basic measures of sperm quantity and viability are scarce. Here we evaluated for the first time quantity and...

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Main Authors: Verena Strobl, Lars Straub, Selina Bruckner, Matthias Albrecht, Jakkrawut Maitip, Eleonora Kolari, Panuwan Chantawannakul, Geoffrey R Williams, Peter Neumann
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2019-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0214597