Sperm number, spermatophore weight and remating in the bushcricket Poecilimon veluchianus

Ethology

Volumn 103, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 12-18

  Reinhold, Klaus ^a,b   Von Helversen, Dagmar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POECILIMON; POECILIMON VELUCHIANUS; ORTHOPTERA; TETTIGONIIDAE;

BUSH CRICKET; SPERM NUMBER; SPERMATOPHORE MASS;

EID: 0030613086     PISSN: 01791613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0310.1997.tb00002.x     Document Type: Article

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