Mating behaviour in Lymnaea stagnalis pond snails is a maternally inherited, lateralized trait

Biology Letters

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 20-22

  Davison, Angus ^a   Frend, Hayley T ^a   Moray, Camile ^a   Wheatley, Hannah ^a   Searle, Laura J ^a   Eichhorn, Markus P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Chirality; Lateralization; Maternal effect; Mollusca

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; MATERNAL EFFECT; MATING BEHAVIOR; SNAIL; SPECIALIZATION;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; BRAIN FUNCTION; CHIRALITY; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC TRAIT; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; LYMNAEA; LYMNAEA STAGNALIS; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; MATING; NONHUMAN; POND; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; VERTICAL TRANSMISSION; ANIMAL; FEMALE; GENETICS; HISTOLOGY; MALE; MORPHOGENESIS; PHYSIOLOGY;

GASTROPODA; INVERTEBRATA; LYMNAEA STAGNALIS; LYMNAEIDAE; MOLLUSCA; VERTEBRATA;

ANIMALS; BODY PATTERNING; FEMALE; LYMNAEA; MALE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL;

EID: 63249102284     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2008.0528     Document Type: Article

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