World Congress of Malacology Antwerp ... - Unitas Malacologica

FRIDAY 20 JULY
SEXUAL SELECTION IN MOLLUSCS
Chair: Janet Leonard
09:00 – 09:20 A bioassay to identify the active molecule in the dart gland mucus
Chase, Ronald; Darbyson, Emily; Nagle, Gregg
09:20 – 09:40 Mating behaviour and spermathecal morphology in populations of the
simultaneously hermaphroditic land snail Helix aspersa
Garefalaki, M.E.; Koemtzopoulos, E.; Kalyva S.; Staikou, A.
09:40 – 10:00 Sperm transfer and sperm digestion in the land snail Succinea putris
(Gastropoda, Pulmonata, Succineidae)
Dillen, Lobke; Jordaens, Kurt; Backeljau, Thierry
10:00 – 10:20 Sperm storage organ evolution in the carrefour of stylommatophoran
gastropods
Beese, Kathleen; Armbruster, Georg F. J.; Beier, Konstantin; Baur, Bruno
10:20 – 10:40 Sperm precedence and lifetime fecundity of Deroceras panormitanum
Reise, Heike; Sauer, Josefine; Matthieu, Christiane; Matton, Sabrina;
Hutchinson, John M.C.
10:40 – 11:10 Tea/Coffee
Lecture hall T 129
SEXUAL SELECTION IN MOLLUSCS
Chair: Nico Michiels
11: 10 – 11:30 Evidence for sexual selection in Ariolimax species Stylommatophora:
Arionidae
Leonard, Janet L.; Pearse, John S.; Turner, M.Q.; Diep, P.J.; Breugelmans,
Karin; Backeljau, Thierry
11:30 – 11:50 Sex and systematics in the Streptaxidae (Pulmonata: Stylommatophora)
Rowson, Ben
11:50 – 12:10 Extreme length development of the penis in the terrestrial slug genus Limax: a
case of sexual selection? (Gastropoda: Limacidae)
Falkner, Gerhard Klee, Barbara
12:10 – 12:30 Evolution of spermatophore ornamentation in the land snail genus Thapsia
(Stylommatophora, Helicarionoidea): a role for sexual selection?
de Winter, Anton. J.
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