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Shape - but Not Size - Codivergence between Male and Female Copulatory Structures in Onthophagus Beetles

Genitalia are among the fastest evolving morphological traits in arthropods. Among the many hypotheses aimed at explaining this observation, some explicitly or implicitly predict concomitant male and female changes of genital traits that interact during copulation (i.e., lock and key, sexual conflic...

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Autores principales: Macagno, Anna L. M., Pizzo, Astrid, Parzer, Harald F., Palestrini, Claudia, Rolando, Antonio, Moczek, Armin P.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3237555/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22194942
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0028893