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Developmental Link between Sex and Nutrition; doublesex Regulates Sex-Specific Mandible Growth via Juvenile Hormone Signaling in Stag Beetles

Sexual dimorphisms in trait expression are widespread among animals and are especially pronounced in ornaments and weapons of sexual selection, which can attain exaggerated sizes. Expression of exaggerated traits is usually male-specific and nutrition sensitive. Consequently, the developmental mecha...

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Autores principales: Gotoh, Hiroki, Miyakawa, Hitoshi, Ishikawa, Asano, Ishikawa, Yuki, Sugime, Yasuhiro, Emlen, Douglas J., Lavine, Laura C., Miura, Toru
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3894178/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24453990
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1004098