Functional anatomy of the sperm storage organs in Pulmonata: The simple spermatheca of Bradybaena fruticum (Gastropoda, Stylommatophora)

Zoomorphology

Volumn 121, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 243-255

  Bojat, Nenad C ^b   Sauder, Ursula ^c   Haase, Martin ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b National Institute of Child Health and Development   (New Zealand)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Helicoidea; Sexual selection; Sperm storage; Spermatozoa; Ultrastructure

Indexed keywords

EID: 57249096884     PISSN: 0720213X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00435-002-0062-z     Document Type: Article

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