TY - GEN
T1 - Traumatic insemination and copulatory wounding
AU - Tatarnic, Nikolai J.
PY - 2018/9/16
Y1 - 2018/9/16
N2 - Copulatory wounding occurs in many animals, resulting in a wide range of mating damage. Such wounding may be either accidental or adaptive. At the far end of the spectrum lies traumatic insemination, a mating system in which males of a species (or functional males in simultaneous hermaphrodites) puncture their partner’s body wall during mating, injecting sperm through the wound. Despite its seemingly counteradaptive nature, such mating has evolved multiple times in terrestrial and marine invertebrates. This paper reviews our current knowledge on the evolution of this bizarre form of mating.
AB - Copulatory wounding occurs in many animals, resulting in a wide range of mating damage. Such wounding may be either accidental or adaptive. At the far end of the spectrum lies traumatic insemination, a mating system in which males of a species (or functional males in simultaneous hermaphrodites) puncture their partner’s body wall during mating, injecting sperm through the wound. Despite its seemingly counteradaptive nature, such mating has evolved multiple times in terrestrial and marine invertebrates. This paper reviews our current knowledge on the evolution of this bizarre form of mating.
UR - http://www.mendeley.com/research/traumatic-insemination-copulatory-wounding
U2 - 10.1016/b978-0-12-809633-8.20730-9
DO - 10.1016/b978-0-12-809633-8.20730-9
M3 - Article in specialist publication
JO - Reference module in life sciences
JF - Reference module in life sciences
PB - Elsevier
ER -