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Bending for love: losses and gains of sexual dimorphisms are strictly correlated with changes in the mounting position of sepsid flies (Sepsidae: Diptera)

BACKGROUND: Sexually dimorphic structures contribute the largest number of morphological differences between closely related insect species thus implying that these structures evolve fast and are involved in speciation. The current literature focuses on the selective forces that drive these changes,...

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Autores principales: Puniamoorthy, Nalini, Su, Kathy Feng-Yi, Meier, Rudolf
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2008
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2409323/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18492287
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2148-8-155