Not just a chastity belt: the functional significance of mating plugs in garter snakes, revisited
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Copulatory plugs in snakes: enforced chastity.
The male of some snake species forms a copulatory plug which occludes the oviductal parts of the female's cloaca for a few days. The plug, apparently formed from secretions of the kidney immediately after insemination, probably prevents rival males from copulating with the same female.
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عنوان ژورنال: Biological Journal of the Linnean Society
سال: 2013
ISSN: 0024-4066
DOI: 10.1111/bij.12089