The Evolutionary Implications of Hemipenial Morphology of Rattlesnake Crotalus durissus terrificus (Laurent, 1768) (Serpentes: Viperidae: Crotalinae)

Most amniotes vertebrates have an intromittent organ to deliver semen. The reptile Sphenodon and most birds lost the ancestral penis and developed a cloaca-cloaca mating. Known as hemipenises, the copulatory organ of Squamata shows unique features between the amniotes intromittent organ. They are th...

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Autores principales: Porto, Marcovan, de Oliveira, Marco Antonio, Pissinatti, Lorenzo, Rodrigues, Renata Lopes, Rojas-Moscoso, Julio Alejandro, Cogo, José Carlos, Metze, Konradin, Antunes, Edson, Nahoum, César, Mónica, Fabíola Z., De Nucci, Gilberto
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2013
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3694123/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23840551
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0066903

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