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The evolution of primary sexual characters in animals
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- Creator
- edited by Janet L. Leonard, Alex Córdoba-Aguilar
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010
- Physical Details
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- ix, 537 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
- ISBNs
- 0195325559, 019988675X, 1282880888, 9780195325553, 9786612880889, 0199717036
- OCLC
- ocn671655905, ocn445479416
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Introduction : celebrating and understanding reproductive diversity / Janet L. Leonard -- The distinction between primary and secondary sexual characters / Michael T. Ghiselin -- The evolution of sexes, anisogamy, and sexual systems : natural vs. sexual selection / Janet L. Leonard -- Rapid divergent evolution of genitalia : theory and data updated / William G. Eberhard -- Killing time : a mechanism of sexual conflict and sexual selection / Patricia Adair Gowaty and Stephen P. Hubbell -- Gamete release and spawning behavior in broadcast spawning marine invertebrates / Katie E. Lotterhos and Don R. Levitan -- Prosobranchs with internal fertilization / Alan N. Hodgson -- Opisthobranchs / Ángel Valdés, Terrence M. Gosliner, and Michael T. Ghiselin -- Basommatophoran gastropods / Philippe Jarne ... [et al.] -- Stylommatophoran gastropods / Bruno Baur -- An ancient indirect sex model : single and mixed patterns in the evolution of scorpion genitalia / Alfredo V. Peretti -- Spider genitalia : precise maneuvers with a numb structure in a complex lock / William G. Eberhard and Bernhard A. Huber -- Genitalic evolution in Opiliones / Rogelio Macías-Ordóñez ... [et al.] -- The evolution of male and female internal reproductive organs in insects / Nina Wedell and David J. Hosken -- Selective forces propelling genitalic evolution in Odonata / Adolfo Cordero Rivera and Alex Córdoba-Aguilar -- Postcopulatory sexual selection in the Coleoptera : mechanisms and consequences / Paul Eady -- Fertilization mode, sperm competition, and cryptic female choice shape primary sexual characters in fish / Michael Taborsky and Francis C. Neat -- Evolution of primary sexual characters in amphibians / Lynne D. Houck and Paul A. Verrell -- Evolution of primary sexual characters in reptiles / Tobias Uller, Devi Stuart-Fox, and Mats Olsson -- Sexual conflict and the intromittent organs of male birds / Robert Montgomerie -- Genitalic traits of mammals : systematics and variation / Edward H. Miller -- The evolution of primary sexual characters in animals : a summary / Alex Córdoba-Aguilar
Subjects
- Generative organs -- Evolution.
- Sexual selection in animals.
- Genitalia.
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- Animal Structures.
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- Biological Evolution.
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- Mating Preference, Animal.
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