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The Earliest Case of Extreme Sexual Display with Exaggerated Male Organs by Two Middle Jurassic Mecopterans
BACKGROUND: Many extant male animals exhibit exaggerated body parts for display, defense or offence in sexual selection, such as male birds of paradise showing off colorful and elegant feathers and male moose and reindeers bearing large structured antlers. For insects, male rhinoceros and stag beetl...
Autores principales: | Wang, Qi, Shih, Chungkun, Ren, Dong |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Public Library of Science
2013
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3743757/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23977031 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0071378 |
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