Live for the moment-Adaptations in the male genital system of a sexually cannibalistic spider (Theridiidae, Araneae)

Tissue and Cell

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 32-36

  Michalik, Peter ^a   Knoflach, Barbara ^b   Thaler, Konrad ^b   Alberti, Gerd ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GREIFSWALD   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

Author keywords

Araneae; Genital system; Monogyny; Sexual selection; Sperm competition

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CANNIBALISM; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPULATION; DWARFISM; ENERGY EXPENDITURE; FATALITY; FEMALE; MALE; MALE GENITAL SYSTEM FUNCTION; NONHUMAN; SEMINAL PLASMA; SEMINAL VESICLE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SPERM PRESERVATION; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPIDER; TESTIS ATROPHY;

ARANEAE; THERIDIIDAE; TIDARREN;

EID: 74149092765     PISSN: 00408166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tice.2009.06.004     Document Type: Article

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