The snail's love-dart delivers mucus to increase paternity

Many of the seemingly bizarre animal behaviours can be understood only by acknowledging the power of sex to shape evolution. A case in point is the so-called love-dart that some terrestrial molluscs shoot at their prospective sexual partners. Given that the likelihood of copulation is not different...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Proceedings of the Royal Society. B, Biological sciences Biological sciences, 2006-06, Vol.273 (1593), p.1471-1475
Hauptverfasser:	Chase, Ronald, Blanchard, Katrina C
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Animal glands Animals Cantareus aspersus Darts Digestive enzymes Disorders of Sex Development Female Genotype Helix aspersa Injections Male Mating behavior Microsatellite Repeats Mollusca Mollusks Mucus Mucus - physiology Reproduction - physiology Sequence Analysis, DNA Sexual Behavior, Animal Sexual Selection Snails Snails - genetics Snails - physiology Sperm Competition Sperm Precedence Spermatozoa Spermatozoa - physiology
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