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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Autores principales: Yoshitaka Kamimura, Hiroyuki Mitsumoto, Chow-Yang Lee
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Publicado: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://doaj.org/article/81e2094e3e654c8db42cfd37ceb4be36
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