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Sexual selection on land snail shell ornamentation: a hypothesis that may explain shell diversity
BACKGROUND: Many groups of land snails show great interspecific diversity in shell ornamentation, which may include spines on the shell and flanges on the aperture. Such structures have been explained as camouflage or defence, but the possibility that they might be under sexual selection has not pre...
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BioMed Central
2003
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC165427/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12791170 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2148-3-13 |