Reappraising the exteriorization of the mammalian testes through evolutionary physiology

A number of theories have been proposed to explain the exteriorization of the testicles in most mammalian species. None of these provide a consistent account for the wide variety of testicular locations found across the animal kingdom. It is proposed that testicular location is the result of coordin...

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Autores principales: Miller, Jr, William B., Torday, John S.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Taylor & Francis 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6527184/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31143362
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/19420889.2019.1586047
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description A number of theories have been proposed to explain the exteriorization of the testicles in most mammalian species. None of these provide a consistent account for the wide variety of testicular locations found across the animal kingdom. It is proposed that testicular location is the result of coordinate action of testicular tissue ecologies to sustain preferential states of homeostatic equipoise throughout evolutionary development in response to the advent of endothermy.
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spelling pubmed-65271842019-05-29 Reappraising the exteriorization of the mammalian testes through evolutionary physiology Miller, Jr, William B. Torday, John S. Commun Integr Biol Review A number of theories have been proposed to explain the exteriorization of the testicles in most mammalian species. None of these provide a consistent account for the wide variety of testicular locations found across the animal kingdom. It is proposed that testicular location is the result of coordinate action of testicular tissue ecologies to sustain preferential states of homeostatic equipoise throughout evolutionary development in response to the advent of endothermy. Taylor & Francis 2019-03-20 /pmc/articles/PMC6527184/ /pubmed/31143362 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/19420889.2019.1586047 Text en © 2019 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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