Experimental coevolution of male and female genital morphology

Nature Communications

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Simmons, Leigh W ^a   Garcia Gonzalez, Francisco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BEETLE; COEVOLUTION; FEMALE GENITAL SYSTEM; GENETIC ANALYSIS; MALE GENITAL SYSTEM; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; ONTHOPHAGUS TAURUS; SEXUAL SELECTION; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; AUSTRALIA; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; GENITAL SYSTEM; HISTOLOGY; MALE; MATE CHOICE; MORPHOMETRICS; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL MODEL;

COLEOPTERA; ONTHOPHAGUS TAURUS;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BEETLES; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BODY WEIGHTS AND MEASURES; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIATION; GENITALIA; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MALE; MATING PREFERENCE, ANIMAL; SEX FACTORS; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

EID: 79960082873     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms1379     Document Type: Article

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