The snail's love-dart delivers mucus to increase paternity

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 273, Issue 1593, 2006, Pages 1471-1475

  Chase, Ronald ^a   Blanchard, Katrina C ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cantareus aspersus; Darts; Helix aspersa; Sexual selection; Sperm competition; Sperm precedence

Indexed keywords

COPULATION; MUCUS; PATERNITY; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; SEXUAL SELECTION; SNAIL; SPERM COMPETITION;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; MALE; MATE CHOICE; MATING; MUCUS; NONHUMAN; PATERNITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SNAIL; SPERM COMPETITION; ANIMAL; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; HERMAPHRODITISM; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCTION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SPERMATOZOON;

ANIMALIA; CANTAREUS ASPERSA; GASTROPODA; HELIX ASPERSA; MOLLUSCA;

MICROSATELLITE DNA;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HERMAPHRODITISM; MALE; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; MUCUS; REPRODUCTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SNAILS; SPERMATOZOA;

EID: 33746199883     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2006.3474     Document Type: Article

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