Method matters: Experimental evidence for shorter avian sperm in faecal compared to abdominal massage samples

Antje Girndt; Glenn Cockburn; Alfredo Sánchez-Tójar; Hanne Løvlie; Julia Schroeder

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0182853

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Method matters: Experimental evidence for shorter avian sperm in faecal compared to abdominal massage samples

Antje Girndt ,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: a.girndt@gmail.com(AG); julia.schroeder@gmail.com(JS)

Affiliations Evolutionary Biology, Max Planck Institute for Ornithology, Seewiesen, Germany, Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College London, Silwood Park Campus, Ascot, United Kingdom, International Max-Planck Research School (IMPRS) for Organismal Biology, University of Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany

http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9558-1201

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Glenn Cockburn,

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Evolutionary Biology, Max Planck Institute for Ornithology, Seewiesen, Germany, International Max-Planck Research School (IMPRS) for Organismal Biology, University of Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany
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Alfredo Sánchez-Tójar,

Roles Funding acquisition, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Evolutionary Biology, Max Planck Institute for Ornithology, Seewiesen, Germany, Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College London, Silwood Park Campus, Ascot, United Kingdom, International Max-Planck Research School (IMPRS) for Organismal Biology, University of Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany
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Hanne Løvlie,

Roles Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation IFM Biology, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden
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Julia Schroeder

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: a.girndt@gmail.com(AG); julia.schroeder@gmail.com(JS)

Affiliations Evolutionary Biology, Max Planck Institute for Ornithology, Seewiesen, Germany, Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College London, Silwood Park Campus, Ascot, United Kingdom
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Method matters: Experimental evidence for shorter avian sperm in faecal compared to abdominal massage samples

Antje Girndt,
Glenn Cockburn,
Alfredo Sánchez-Tójar,
Hanne Løvlie,
Julia Schroeder

Published: August 16, 2017
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0182853

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