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Coevolution of female and male genital components to avoid genital size mismatches in sexually dimorphic spiders

BACKGROUND: In most animal groups, it is unclear how body size variation relates to genital size differences between the sexes. While most morphological features tend to scale with total somatic size, this does not necessarily hold for genitalia because divergent evolution in somatic size between th...

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Autores principales: Lupše, Nik, Cheng, Ren-Chung, Kuntner, Matjaž
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4989301/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27535025
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12862-016-0734-9