Unlocking the "black box": Internal female genitalia in Sepsidae (Diptera) evolve fast and are species-specific

BMC Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Puniamoorthy, Nalini ^a,b   Kotrba, Marion ^c   Meier, Rudolf ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^c ZOOLOGISCHE STAATSSAMMLUNG MÜNCHEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIVERGENCE; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; FEMALE; FLY; MORPHOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; REPRODUCTIVE BIOLOGY; SEXUAL SELECTION; TAXONOMY;

DIPTERA; HEXAPODA; ORTALISCHEMA ALBITARSE; ORYGMA LUCTUOSUM; SEPSIDAE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; FEMALE GENITAL SYSTEM; FLY; HISTOLOGY; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; DIPTERA; FEMALE; GENITALIA, FEMALE; MALE; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 77956488042     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712148     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-10-275     Document Type: Article

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