Experimental reduction of intromittent organ length reduces male reproductive success in a bug

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 282, Issue 1808, 2015, Pages

  Dougherty, Liam R ^a   Rahman, Imran A ^b   Burdfield Steel, Emily R ^a   Ginny Greenway, E V ^a   Shuker, David M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cryptic female choice; Functional morphology; Genital ablation; Genital evolution; Micro computed tomography; Post copulatory

Indexed keywords

HEXAPODA; LYGAEIDAE; LYGAEUS SIMULANS;

ANIMAL; COPULATION; FEMALE; FEMALE GENITAL SYSTEM; HETEROPTERA; INSEMINATION; MALE; MALE GENITAL SYSTEM; MICRO-COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PHYSIOLOGY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; COPULATION; FEMALE; GENITALIA, FEMALE; GENITALIA, MALE; HETEROPTERA; INSEMINATION; MALE; X-RAY MICROTOMOGRAPHY;

COPULATION; CRYPSIS; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FITNESS; FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY; INSECT; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 84929327719     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2015.0724     Document Type: Article

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