New study finds females play active, pivotal role in postcopulatory processes
Monday, June 10, 2013 - 16:30
in Biology & Nature
Females play a larger role in determining paternity than previously thought, say biologists in Syracuse University's College of Arts and Sciences. Their findings are the subject of a new paper titled "Female mediation of competitive fertilization success in Drosophila melanogaster," published this month by Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.