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[Morphological variation of the spermatheca in the garden snail Cantareus aspersus].
Comptes rendus biologies - 1 Oct 2007
Evanno Guillaume, Madec Luc
Abstract excerpt
Spermathecal morphology is known to play an important role in postcopulatory sexual selection of many invertebrates. In helicid land snails, the spermatheca is subdivided into tubules, whose number is sometimes subject to a strong inter-individual variation. Significance of this variation for postcopulatory sexual selection is unknown, but it might be related to cryptic female choice. In the present work, we have...
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