Traumatic insemination in the plant bug genus Coridromius signoret (Heteroptera: Miridae)

Biology Letters

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 58-61

  Tatarnic, Nikolai J ^a   Cassis, Gerasimos ^b   Hochuli, Dieter F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM   (Australia)

Author keywords

Entomology; Evolution; Miridae; Sexual conflict; Traumatic insemination

Indexed keywords

ENTOMOLOGY; EVOLUTION; SEXUAL CONFLICT;

ADAPTATION; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INSEMINATION; CONFLICT; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; GENITAL SYSTEM; HETEROPTERA; INFECTION RISK; MALE; MATING SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; SPERM; ZOOLOGY;

ANIMALIA; CIMICOMORPHA; CORIDROMIUS; HETEROPTERA; MIRIDAE;

EID: 33644913394     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2005.0394     Document Type: Article

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