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Potential sexual transmission of environmental microbes in a traumatically inseminating insect

2005-10-01

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1. Very little attention has been paid to the importance of environmental microbes and how they gain access to potential hosts during host wounding or sexual interactions. Male members of the family Cimicidae (including the haematophagous human pest, the bed bug, Cimex lectularius) show traumatic insemination: in order to transfer sperm the male punctures the female's cuticle using a needle-like intromittent organ...

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Literature Corpus work: e645fa9f-cf65-5628-b25c-dd7346696caf
DOI: 10.1111/j.0307-6946.2005.00730.x

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