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internal fertilization

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internal fertilization [in′tərn·əl ‚fərd·əl·ə′zā·shən]
(physiology)
Fertilization of the egg within the body of the female.


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called the internal fertilization find "remarkable.
Cyathermia naticoides Waren & Bouchet 1989 (Family Neomphalidae), the only coiled-shell gastropod investigated here, has a reproductive morphology characteristic of internal fertilization (Waren & Bouchet 1989).
However, he and a colleague propose that gender wars are more likely to flare into bodily harm among simultaneous-hermaphrodite species with internal fertilization than among their separate-sex counterparts.
 
 
 
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