A team of researchers from Hokkaido University and Keio University, both in Japan, working with one colleague from the Federal University of Lavras, in Brazil, and another from the Geneva Natural History Museum, in Switzerland, has discovered the mechanism used by one species of female barklice to capture sperm from potential mates. In their paper published in the journal Royal Society Open Science, the group describes using a micro-CT scanner to study the musculature of female barklice.
