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Transcriptomics of two evolutionary novelties: how to make a sperm-transfer organ out of an anal fin and a sexually selected “sword” out of a caudal fin

Swords are exaggerated male ornaments of swordtail fishes that have been of great interest to evolutionary biologists ever since Darwin described them in the Descent of Man (1871). They are a novel sexually selected trait derived from modified ventral caudal fin rays and are only found in the genus...

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Autores principales: Kang, Ji Hyoun, Manousaki, Tereza, Franchini, Paolo, Kneitz, Susanne, Schartl, Manfred, Meyer, Axel
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BlackWell Publishing Ltd 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4338968/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25750712
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ece3.1390