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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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Autor principal: Schilthuizen, Menno
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: 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