Sperm Dynamics in Spiders (Araneae): Ultrastructural Analysis of the Sperm Activation Process in the Garden Spider Argiope bruennichi (Scopoli, 1772)

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 9, 2013, Pages

  Vöcking, Oliver ^a,b   Uhl, Gabriele ^a   Michalik, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GREIFSWALD   (Germany)

^b Sars International Centre for Marine Molecular Biology   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARGIOPE BRUENNICHI; ARTICLE; CELL ENCAPSULATION; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPULATION; EGG LAYING; EJACULATION; FEMALE; FEMALE GENITAL SYSTEM; FERTILIZATION; MALE; MALE GENITAL TRACT PARAMETERS; MICRO-COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NONHUMAN; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SPERM ACTIVATION; SPERM DYNAMICS; SPERMATHECA; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOON MIGRATION; SPIDER; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

ANIMALS; CELL SHAPE; FEMALE; GENITALIA, FEMALE; MALE; SPERMATOZOA; SPIDERS;

EID: 84883633564     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0072660     Document Type: Article

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