Precopulatory stabbing, hypodermic injections and unilateral copulations in a hermaphroditic sea slug

Biology Letters

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 121-124

  Anthes, Nils ^a   Michiels, Nico K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Hermaphroditism; Sexual conflict; Siphopteron quadrispinosum

Indexed keywords

COPULATION; HERMAPHRODITE; MALE BEHAVIOR; MATING BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL CONFLICT; SLUG;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPULATION; FEMALE; HERMAPHRODITISM; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SIPHOPTERON QUADRISPINOSUM; TREMATODE;

OPISTHOBRANCHIA;

EID: 34447128073     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2006.0596     Document Type: Article

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