Sperm allocation in the simultaneously hermaphroditic land snail Arianta arbustorum

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 56, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 839-845

  Baur, Bruno ^a   Locher, Rolf ^a   Baur, Anette ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HERMAPHRODITE; MATING BEHAVIOR; MOLLUSC; SPERM COMPETITION;

ARIANTA ARBUSTORUM; GASTROPODA;

EID: 0031758694     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1998.0855     Document Type: Article

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