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Category: Mating & Reproduction

Mating & Reproduction Organisms

Sequential Lovin’: You and Me and You and You

Kevin Zelnio May 19, 2009 Crepidula fornicataHitchhikinglimpetOregonsequential hermaphroditeSex Weekslipper limpet

Clearly Isaac Hayes drew his inspiration from the limpet Crepidula fornicata for this classic funk soul hit. Crepidula, known as a slipper limpet, is a…

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Mating & Reproduction

Sea turtles get it on, and on, and on…

Peter Etnoyer May 19, 2009 green turtlemating behaviorReproductionsea turtlesexSex WeekWallace J Nichols

Wallace J. Nichols is a sea turtle biologist and marine conservation activist affiliated with the California Academy of Sciences, Ocean Revolution, and the Sea Turtle…

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Mating & Reproduction Organisms

I have a dirty secret: I am a mussel sex voyeur.

Dr. M May 19, 2009 bivalvecold seepfertilizationgametlarvaemusselssexSex WeekShawn ArellanoSpawningsperm

Post by Shawn M. Arellano. Dr. Shawn Arellano is a postdoctoral researcher at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. Her PhD research at…

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Carnivals & Link Love Mating & Reproduction

Who’s Talking Dirty Today?

Kevin Zelnio May 18, 2009 Sex Week

Spreading the love on sex week! The good Dr. Byrnes talks about sex in flatworms with Penis Fencing: Dangerous or Decadent? Greg Laden ponders the…

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Mating & Reproduction New Species Organisms

Got Gonad?

Kevin Zelnio May 18, 2009 AnemoneChondrophelliaHistologyMicroscopyOvaReproductionSex WeekThin Sectioning

In an upcoming paper I have in press with colleagues, we are describing 4 new species of Anemone form hydrothermal vents in the western Pacific.…

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Mating & Reproduction Organisms

“Sleezy” sponge sexuality

Dr. M May 18, 2009 Amanda KahnfertilizationgonadhermaphroditeMatingoocytePoriferaReproductionsexSex Weeksmoking spongesspermsponge

Post by Amanda “not a sponge” Kahn. Amanda Kahn is currently a masters student at well-known Moss Landing Marine Laboratory, considered to be one of…

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Mating & Reproduction Organisms

The Sand Dollar Love Shack: A Special Echinoblog to DSN

Dr. M May 17, 2009 breeding sitebrittle starChris MahfertilizationJapanMatingOphiodaphneReproductionsandollarsSea of JapansexSex WeekspawnTsuruga Bay

Post from Chris Mah, purveyor of all echinoderm.  Dr. Christopher Mah is a NSF Postdoctoral Fellow at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History.  He…

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Mating & Reproduction

Introduction to Sex Week

Dr. M May 17, 2009 BiblebreastsdiversityevolutionfencingIsraelOld TestamentPenispenis fencingprudishreproducitonreproductive isolationsexSex Weeksexual selectionSong of Solomonsperm

This is the official introduction to Sex Week at DSN.  We here at DSN never shy away from writing about sex. Through reproduction, fitness is…

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Adaptations Mating & Reproduction Organisms

Sex For Flatworms is Both Love and War

Dr. M March 19, 2009 daggerfencingflatwormlovemateMatingNSFWPenisReproductionsexspermswordwarworm

From the video, “It’s known as penis fencing, and the worms are the swordsmen” Potentially NSFW if having the word the penis said a dozen…

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Adaptations Cephalopods Mating & Reproduction New Research Organisms Scientist!

Squid Cuts Body of Sexual Partner

Dr. M February 9, 2009 CephalopodenzymesfreaksGiant SquidJapanMolluscasexspermsquidValentine's Day

Yeah, squids are freaky…real freaky freaks.  An article over at Practical Fish Keeping details the work of recent PhD Henk-Jan Hoving.  His dissertation makes mine…

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