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SUBMITTER: House C
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7317928 | biostudies-literature | 2020 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
House Clarissa C Tunstall Philip P Rapkin James J Bale Mathilda J MJ Gage Matthew M Del Castillo Enrique E Hunt John J
Evolution; international journal of organic evolution 20200123 5
Male genitals are highly divergent in animals with internal fertilization. Most studies attempting to explain this diversity have focused on testing the major hypotheses of genital evolution (the lock-and-key, pleiotropy, and sexual selection hypotheses), and quantifying the form of selection targeting male genitals has played an important role in this endeavor. However, we currently know far less about selection targeting female genitals or how male and female genitals interact during mating. H ...[more]