Alternative delivery of male accessory gland products

Frontiers in Zoology

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Zizzari, Z V ^a   Smolders, Irene ^b   Koene, Joris M ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Injection; Mating strategy; Sexual selection; Sperm transfer; Spermatophore

Indexed keywords

EID: 84899071845     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17429994     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1742-9994-11-32     Document Type: Review

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