Disposable penis and its replenishment in a simultaneous hermaphrodite

Biology Letters

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Sekizawa, Ayami ^a   Seki, Satoko ^b   Tokuzato, Masakazu ^b   Shiga, Sakiko ^a   Nakashima, Yasuhiro ^c  

^a Osaka Prefecture University   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE RYUKYUS   (Japan)

^c NIHON UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Penis autotomy; Simultaneous hermaphrodite; Sperm competition

Indexed keywords

AUTOTOMY; COPULATION; GASTROPOD; HERMAPHRODITE; MATING BEHAVIOR; MORPHOLOGY; SECONDARY SEXUAL CHARACTERISTICS; SEXUAL SELECTION; SPERM COMPETITION;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CELL NUCLEUS; COPULATION; CYTOLOGY; FEMALE; GASTROPOD; HERMAPHRODITIC SPECIES; HISTOLOGY; MALE; NUCLEAR SHAPE; PENIS; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCTION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPERMATOZOON; STAINING; TIME; VAS DEFERENS;

ANIMALS; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL NUCLEUS SHAPE; COPULATION; FEMALE; GASTROPODA; HERMAPHRODITIC ORGANISMS; MALE; PENIS; REPRODUCTION; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SPERMATOZOA; STAINING AND LABELING; TIME FACTORS; VAS DEFERENS;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84874145055     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2012.1150     Document Type: Article

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