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Duplicated Female Receptacle Organs for Traumatic Insemination in the Tropical Bed Bug Cimex hemipterus: Adaptive Variation or Malformation?

During mating, male bed bugs (Cimicidae) pierce the female abdomen to inject sperm using their needle-like genitalia. Females evolved specialized paragenital organs (the spermalege and associated structures) to receive traumatically injected ejaculates. In Leptocimex duplicatus, the spermalege is du...

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Main Authors: Kamimura, Yoshitaka, Mitsumoto, Hiroyuki, Lee, Chow-Yang
Format: Artigo
Sprog:Inglês
Udgivet: Public Library of Science 2014
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Online adgang:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3929720/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24586643
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0089265
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