Coevolution of Male and Female Genital Morphology in Waterfowl

Most birds have simple genitalia; males lack external genitalia and females have simple vaginas. However, male waterfowl have a phallus whose length (1.5–>40 cm) and morphological elaborations vary among species and are positively correlated with the frequency of forced extra-pair copulations amo...

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Autores principales: Brennan, Patricia L.R., Prum, Richard O., McCracken, Kevin G., Sorenson, Michael D., Wilson, Robert E., Birkhead, Tim R.
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2007
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1855079/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17476339
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0000418

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1855079/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17476339
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0000418

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