The mucus of a land snail love-dart suppresses subsequent matings in darted individuals

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 85, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 631-635

  Kimura, Kazuki ^a   Shibuya, Kaito ^a   Chiba, Satoshi ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Biochemical substance; Dart shooting; Euhadra quaesita; Postcopulatory sexual selection; Pulmonate land snail; Remating

Indexed keywords

ANATOMY; COPULATION; HERMAPHRODITE; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; MATING BEHAVIOR; MUCUS; OVIPOSITION; PHYSIOLOGY; SEXUAL SELECTION; SNAIL; SPERM COMPETITION;

EUHADRA QUAESITA; GASTROPODA; STYLOMMATOPHORA;

EID: 84875247067     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2012.12.026     Document Type: Article

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