Male Accessory Gland Secretions: Modulators of Female Reproductive Physiology and Behavior

Annual Review of Entomology

Volumn 48, Issue , 2003, Pages 163-184

  Gillott, Cedric ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

Author keywords

Egg laying; Fecundity; Mating; Receptivity; Sperm

Indexed keywords

INSECT; REPRODUCTION; REPRODUCTIVE BIOLOGY; SECRETION; SPERM;

INSECTA;

ANIMAL; EGG LAYING; FEMALE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; INSECT; MALE; MALE GENITAL SYSTEM; OOCYTE; OVULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCTION; REVIEW; SECRETION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SPERMATOZOON;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; GENITALIA, MALE; INSECTS; MALE; OVIPOSITION; OVULATION; OVUM; REPRODUCTION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SPERMATOZOA;

EID: 0037209015     PISSN: 00664170     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.ento.48.091801.112657     Document Type: Review

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