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Eversion and withdrawal of an intromittent organ before sexual maturation prepares male beetles for copulation

Some species of criocerine beetles have a hyper-elongated part of the intromittent organ called a flagellum. In resting position, the flagellum is stored in a specialized internal sac in the intromittent organ. This specialized state of the flagellum and internal sac is indispensable during copulati...

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Udgivet i:R Soc Open Sci
Main Authors: Matsumura, Yoko, Kubo, Takuya
Format: Artigo
Sprog:Inglês
Udgivet: The Royal Society Publishing 2017
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Online adgang:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5579075/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28878960
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsos.161029
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