Brainless but not clueless: Earthworms boost their ejaculates when they detect fecund non-virgin partners

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 275, Issue 1638, 2008, Pages 1067-1072

  Velando, Alberto ^a   Eiroa, Julio ^a   Domínguez, Jorge ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIGO   (Spain)

Author keywords

Earthworms; Hermaphrodites; Partner assessment; Sensory abilities; Sperm competition

Indexed keywords

EARTHWORM; HERMAPHRODITE; MATING BEHAVIOR; SPERM COMPETITION;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; EARTHWORM; EJACULATION; FERTILITY; HERMAPHRODITISM; MATING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUALITY; SPERM;

ANIMALIA; EISENIA ANDREI;

EID: 40549084652     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2007.1718     Document Type: Article

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