Male New Zealand mud snails (Potamopyrgus antipodarum) persist in copulating with asexual and parasitically castrated females

American Midland Naturalist

Volumn 154, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 88-96

  Neiman, M ^a,b   Lively, C M ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COPULATION; MATE CHOICE; MATING BEHAVIOR; SNAIL;

AUSTRALASIA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; NEW ZEALAND; WORLD;

BASOMMATOPHORA; GASTROPODA; POTAMOPYRGUS ANTIPODARUM; TREMATODA;

EID: 22744438872     PISSN: 00030031     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1674/0003-0031(2005)154[0088:MNZMSP]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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