Cool sex? Hibernation and reproduction overlap in the echidna

PLoS ONE

Volumn 4, Issue 6, 2009, Pages

  Morrow, Gemma ^a   Nicol, Stewart C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ECHIDNA; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FEMALE GENITAL SYSTEM; FERTILIZATION; HIBERNATION; MALE; MATE CHOICE; MATING SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; REPRODUCTION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BREEDING; OVULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; SPERMATOZOON; THERMOREGULATION;

MONOTREMATA; TACHYGLOSSIDAE; TACHYGLOSSUS ACULEATUS;

ANIMALS; BODY TEMPERATURE REGULATION; ECHIDNA; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; HIBERNATION; MALE; MATING PREFERENCE, ANIMAL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; OVULATION; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY, ANIMAL; REPRODUCTION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SPERMATOZOA;

EID: 67650697042     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0006070     Document Type: Article

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