Behavioural and neurobiological aspects of dart shooting in the garden snail Helix Aspersa
Dart shooting, a bizarre component of mating behaviour seen in several species of terrestrial snails, has bewildered scientists for centuries. The hermaphroditic snail Helix aspersa pushes a calcareous "love dart", covered with mucus, through the skin of its partner at the end of an elabor...
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McGill University
1999
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