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Fig. 2

From: Alternative mating tactics in brown widow spiders: mating with or without male self-sacrifice does not affect the copulatory mechanism

Fig. 2

3D-reconstructed external (i.e. epigyne) and internal copulatory system (copulatory ducts, spermathecae and fertilization ducts) of a subadult L. geometricus female using MicroCT analysis. a. ventral and b. lateral view of the epigyne (volume reconstruction). c. ventral, d. lateral, e. axial and f. dorsal view of the internal copulatory system (surface reconstruction). The atrium (full arrows) hosts two copulatory openings (empty arrows) leading through copulatory ducts to spermatheacae

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Frontiers in Zoology

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