Multiple sperm storage organs facilitate female-control of paternity

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 272, Issue 1568, 2005, Pages 1139-1144

  Snow, Lindsay S E ^a   Andrade, Maydianne C B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cryptic female choice; Insemination pattern; Multiple sperm storage organs; Paternity; Redback spiders; Sperm precedence

Indexed keywords

PATERNITY; POLYANDRY; SPERM; SPIDER; STORAGE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPULATION; FEMALE; FEMALE GENITAL SYSTEM; LATRODECTUS HASSELTI; MALE; MATING; NONHUMAN; PATERNITY; POLYANDRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPERM PRESERVATION; SPIDER;

LATRODECTUS HASSELTI;

EID: 22544464748     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2005.3088     Document Type: Article

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