Nervous control of male sexual drive in the hermaphroditic snail Lymnaea stagnalis

Journal of Experimental Biology

Volumn 200, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 941-951

  De Boer, P A C M ^a   Jansen, R F ^a   Koene, J M ^a   Ter Maat, A ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

copulation; hermaphrodite; Lymnaea stagnalis; motivation; penis nerve; prostate gland; reproduction; snail

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030981981     PISSN: 00220949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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