Giant spermatozoa and a huge spermatheca: A case of coevolution of male and female reproductive organs in the ground louse Zorotypus impolitus (Insecta, Zoraptera)

Arthropod Structure and Development

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 135-151

  Dallai, Romano ^a   Gottardo, Marco ^a   Mercati, David ^a   Machida, Ryuichiro ^b   Mashimo, Yuta ^b   Matsumura, Yoko ^c   Beutel, Rolf G ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^c FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

Insect genital systems; Male accessory glands; Sperm and egg structure; Spermatophore; Spermiogenesis

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; APICAL RECEPTACLE; ARTICLE; AXONEME; BASEMENT MEMBRANE; BODY REGIONS; COEVOLUTION; EJACULATORY DUCT; FEMALE; FEMALE GENITAL SYSTEM; GOLGI COMPLEX; HEXAPOD; HISTOPATHOLOGY; MALE; MALE GENITAL SYSTEM; MATING; NONHUMAN; ROUGH ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SEMINAL VESICLE; SEXUAL MATURITY; SEXUAL SELECTION; SPERM; SPERMATHECA; SPERMATHECAL DUCT; SPERMATIC CORD; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOPHORE; SPERMATOZOON; ZORAPTERA; ZOROTYPUS IMPOLITUS;

HEXAPODA; INSECTA; PHTHIRAPTERA; ZORAPTERA; ZOROTYPUS;

INSECT GENITAL SYSTEMS; MALE ACCESSORY GLANDS; SPERM AND EGG STRUCTURE; SPERMATOPHORE; SPERMIOGENESIS;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CELL SIZE; FEMALE; INSECTS; MALE; REPRODUCTION; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SPERMATOZOA;

EID: 84894414899     PISSN: 14678039     EISSN: 18735495     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.asd.2013.10.002     Document Type: Article

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