Insect seminal fluid proteins: Identification and function

Annual Review of Entomology

Volumn 56, Issue , 2011, Pages 21-40

  Avila, Frank W ^a   Sirot, Laura K ^a   Laflamme, Brooke A ^a   Rubinstein, C Dustin ^a   Wolfner, Mariana F ^a  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

Acp; egg production; feeding; mating plug; mating receptivity; reproduction; sperm competition; sperm storage

Indexed keywords

INSECT PROTEIN; SEMINAL PLASMA PROTEIN;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; FEMALE; INSECT; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; INSECT PROTEINS; INSECTS; MALE; SEMINAL PLASMA PROTEINS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL;

HEXAPODA;

EID: 78650867918     PISSN: 00664170     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-ento-120709-144823     Document Type: Article

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