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Intraspecific morphological variation of the sperm storing organ in two hermaphroditic land snail species
BACKGROUND: Postcopulatory sexual selection is very important in species with reproductive strategies that involve multiple mating and prolonged sperm storage. The sperm storage organ has been hypothesized to evolve in response to different levels of sperm competition in several species while popula...
Autores principales: | Staikou, Alexandra, Koemtzopoulos, Evripidis |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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BioMed Central
2019
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6354400/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30733933 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40709-019-0093-y |
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