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Sodium: a male moth's gift to its offspring.

Males of the moth Gluphisia septentrionis acquire sodium by drinking from mud puddles. Analyses of male and female bodies indicate that such "puddling" behavior enables the male to provide his mate with a nuptial gift of sodium, presumably via the spermatophore. This gift (about 10 microg)...

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Hauptverfasser: Smedley, S R, Eisner, T
Format: Artigo
Sprache:Inglês
Veröffentlicht: 1996
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Online Zugang:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC40138/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11607627
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