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Love Is Blind: Indiscriminate Female Mating Responses to Male Courtship Pheromones in Newts (Salamandridae)

Internal fertilization without copulation or prolonged physical contact is a rare reproductive mode among vertebrates. In many newts (Salamandridae), the male deposits a spermatophore on the substrate in the water, which the female subsequently takes up with her cloaca. Because such an insemination...

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Autores principales: Treer, Dag, Van Bocxlaer, Ines, Matthijs, Severine, Du Four, Dimitri, Janssenswillen, Sunita, Willaert, Bert, Bossuyt, Franky
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3574087/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23457580
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0056538