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Traumatic insemination and female counter-adaptation in Strepsiptera (Insecta)

In a few insect groups, males pierce the female’s integument with their penis during copulation to transfer sperm. This so-called traumatic insemination was previously confirmed for Strepsiptera but only in species with free-living females. The more derived endoparasitic groups (Stylopidia) were sug...

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Autores principales: Peinert, Miriam, Wipfler, Benjamin, Jetschke, Gottfried, Kleinteich, Thomas, Gorb, Stanislav N., Beutel, Rolf G., Pohl, Hans
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4850473/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27125507
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep25052