Queue up, please! Spermathecal filling in the rove beetle Drusilla canaliculata (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae)

Naturwissenschaften

Volumn 94, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 837-841

  Werner, Michael ^a,b   Gack, Claudia ^a   Speck, Thomas ^a   Peschke, Klaus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Active sperm migration; Insect sperm motility; Sperm length; Sperm morphology; Sperm motility pattern

Indexed keywords

BEETLE; ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECT; MIGRATION; MORPHOLOGY; MOTILITY; REPRODUCTIVE BIOLOGY; SPERM;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; COLEOPTERA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISSECTION; DRUSILLA CANALICULATA; FEMALE; GENITAL SYSTEM; INSECT; MALE; NONHUMAN; SPERMATOZOON; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; VELOCITY;

ANIMALS; BEETLES; FEMALE; MALE; REPRODUCTION; SPERM MOTILITY; SPERMATOGONIA; SPERMATOZOA;

ANIMALIA; COLEOPTERA; DRUSILLA CANALICULATA; HEXAPODA; STAPHYLINIDAE;

EID: 34548399026     PISSN: 00281042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00114-007-0257-8     Document Type: Article

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