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Mendeley readers
| Title |
Sperm dumping as a defense against meiotic drive
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|---|---|
| Published in |
BMC Biology, January 2009
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| DOI | 10.1186/jbiol109 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Tom Price, Zenobia Lewis, Nina Wedell |
| Abstract |
Sperm from Drosophila simulans that carry a sex-ratio distorter is preferentially lost from females' sperm-storage organs. This suggests that sperm dumping is a major factor affecting sperm competition in this species, and may have evolved in response to sex-ratio distorters. |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 27 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 2 | 7% |
| Japan | 1 | 4% |
| Unknown | 24 | 89% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 8 | 30% |
| Researcher | 6 | 22% |
| Professor > Associate Professor | 3 | 11% |
| Student > Master | 3 | 11% |
| Student > Bachelor | 2 | 7% |
| Other | 4 | 15% |
| Unknown | 1 | 4% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 18 | 67% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 4 | 15% |
| Environmental Science | 1 | 4% |
| Unknown | 4 | 15% |