Shell shape and mating behaviour in pulmonate gastropods (Mollusca)

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 96, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 306-321

  Jordaens, Kurt ^a   Dillen, Lobke ^a   Backeljau, Thierry ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^b ROYAL BELGIAN INSTITUTE OF NATURAL SCIENCES   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Dart shooting; Freshwater snails; Hermaphrodite; Land snails; Sexual selection; Whole body enantiomorphy

Indexed keywords

ANATOMY; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; GASTROPOD; HERMAPHRODITE; INTRASPECIFIC VARIATION; MATING BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL SELECTION; SNAIL; SPERM;

BASOMMATOPHORA; GASTROPODA; MOLLUSCA; STYLOMMATOPHORA;

EID: 58549091854     PISSN: 00244066     EISSN: 10958312     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2008.01122.x     Document Type: Article

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