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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...

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Main Authors: Wang, Qi, Shih, Chungkun, Ren, Dong
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: Public Library of Science 2013
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3743757/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23977031
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0071378
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