A Syringe-Like Love Dart Injects Male Accessory Gland Products in a Tropical Hermaphrodite

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 2013, Pages

  Koene, Joris M ^a,b   Liew, Thor Seng ^b,c   Montagne Wajer, Kora ^a   Schilthuizen, Menno ^b,c,d  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b NATURALIS BIODIVERSITY CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITI MALAYSIA SABAH   (Malaysia)

^d LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCESSORY SEX GLAND; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; COPULATION; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; EVERETTIA CORRUGATA; GENITAL SYSTEM; HEMOLYMPH; HERMAPHRODITIC SPECIES; HISTOLOGY; LOVE DART; MATING; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; SEXUAL SELECTION; SNAIL; TROPICS;

EID: 84880772642     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0069968     Document Type: Article

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