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Eversion and withdrawal of an intromittent organ before sexual maturation prepares male beetles for copulation
Some species of criocerine beetles have a hyper-elongated part of the intromittent organ called a flagellum. In resting position, the flagellum is stored in a specialized internal sac in the intromittent organ. This specialized state of the flagellum and internal sac is indispensable during copulati...
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| Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
| Lenguaje: | English |
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The Royal Society Publishing
2017
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| Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5579075/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28878960 http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsos.161029 |