Morphological variation of the spermatheca in the garden snail Cantareus aspersus;Variation morphologique de la spermathèque chez l'escargot terrestre Cantareus aspersus

Comptes Rendus - Biologies

Volumn 330, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 722-727

  Evanno, Guillaume ^a   Madec, Luc ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE RENNES 1   (France)

Author keywords

Sexual selection; Simultaneous hermaphrodite; Spermathecal morphology; Terrestrial snail

Indexed keywords

COPULATION; MORPHOLOGY; REPRODUCTIVE BIOLOGY; SNAIL;

ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ARTICLE; CANTAREUS ASPERSUS; COITUS; FEMALE GENITAL SYSTEM; GENITAL SYSTEM EXAMINATION; HERMAPHRODITISM; MALE GENITAL SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; SEXUAL SELECTION; SNAIL; SPERM; TERRESTRIAL SPECIES;

ANIMAL STRUCTURES; ANIMALS; FEMALE; GENITALIA, FEMALE; HERMAPHRODITISM; SNAILS; VARIATION (GENETICS);

CANTAREUS ASPERSA; GASTROPODA; HELICIDAE; INVERTEBRATA; STYLOMMATOPHORA;

EID: 34848847249     PISSN: 16310691     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.crvi.2007.07.005     Document Type: Article

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