Sexual selection maintains whole-body chiral dimorphism in snails

Although the vast majority of higher animals are fixed for one chiral morph or another, the cause for this directionality is known in only a few cases. In snails, for example, rare individuals of the opposite coil are unable to mate with individuals of normal coil, so directionality is maintained by...

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Main Authors: SCHILTHUIZEN, M., CRAZE, P. G., CABANBAN, A. S., DAVISON, A., STONE, J., GITTENBERGER, E., SCOTT, B. J.
Format: Text
Language:English
Published: Blackwell Publishing Ltd 2007
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Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2121153/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17714311
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1420-9101.2007.01370.x

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2121153/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17714311
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1420-9101.2007.01370.x

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