pre-copulatory
The possession of a tubular copulatory organ indicated that this species belongs to the genus Diplectanum.
Activation of the hypothalamus in monkeys elicits penile erections in male monkeys and copulatory behaviour in females.
The male insect holds the female in place as he performs the copulatory movements.

Examples of copulatory

copulatory
Females were checked daily for the presence of a copulatory plug.
Reniform proximal part of copulatory organ is divided into four chambers by sclerotized septa.
Sousa (1983) noted that infected snails did not exhibit copulatory behaviour.
This variability is magnified later and a few 15-day-old individuals still did not have dorsal haptoral accessory spines or a male copulatory organ.
The form of the male copulatory organ and the accessory piece varied considerably between 15-day-old specimens.
They may, for example, inhibit the stimulating effect of endogenous growth factors on mitotic divisions of the myoblasts in the copulatory organ.
Observations of male-male pairings were divided into four categories: contact; mounting; copulatory attempt and no response.
Only two 15-day-old worms had what appeared to be a fully formed male copulatory organ and accessory piece.
Inbreeding depression, neutral polymorphism and copulatory behavior in freshwater snails : a selffertilization syndrome.
Male ticks have no specialized copulatory organ, so their mouthparts push the tip of the spermatophore into the female's gonopore.
If the digits were ablated, the copulatory response was lost.
Inbreeding depression, neutral polymorphism and copulatory behaviour in freshwater snails : a selffertilization syndrome.
Individuals were monitored over 29 weeks for copulatory activity, fecundity, growth and survival.
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