Fine Structure of the Male Reproductive System and Reproductive Behavior of Lutzomyia longipalpis Sandflies (Diptera: Psychodidae: Phlebotominae)

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 9, 2013, Pages

  Spiegel, Carolina N ^a,b   Bretas, Jorge A C ^a   Peixoto, Alexandre A ^a,c   Vigoder, Felipe M ^a   Bruno, Rafaela V ^a,c   Soares, Maurilio J ^a  

^a INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ   (Brazil)

^b FLUMINENSE FEDERAL UNIVERSITY   (Brazil)

^c Instituto Nacional de Ciencia e Tecnologia em Entomologia Molecular   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EJACULATORY DUCT; ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ANATOMY; LUTZOMYIA LONGIPALPIS; MALE; MALE GENITAL SYSTEM; MATING; NONHUMAN; REPRODUCTIVE BEHAVIOR; SEMINAL VESICLE; TESTIS; VIRGINITY;

ANIMALS; DIPTERA; ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM; FEMALE; INSECT PROTEINS; MALE; REPRODUCTION; SEMINAL VESICLES; SPERMATOZOA; TESTIS; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 84884156722     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0074898     Document Type: Article

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