Expandable spermatheca influences sperm storage in the simultaneously hermaphroditic snail arianta arbustorum

Invertebrate Reproduction and Development

Volumn 49, Issue 1-2, 2006, Pages 93-101

  Beese, Kathleen ^a   Baur, Bruno ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Arianta arbustorum; Sexual selection; Simultaneous hermaphrodite; Sperm storage; Spermathecal morphology

Indexed keywords

ARIANTA ARBUSTORUM; GASTROPODA; STYLOMMATOPHORA;

EID: 33747622079     PISSN: 07924259     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07924259.2006.9652198     Document Type: Article

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