Evolution of a hyper-complex intromittent organ in rove beetles - the endophallus of Xantholinini (Staphylinidae: Coleoptera)

Zhou, YLZ; Zhou, HZ; Slipinski, A; Beutel, RG

Zhou, HZ (corresponding author), Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Zool, Key Lab Zool Systemat & Evolut, 1 Beichen West Rd, Beijing 100101, Peoples R China.; Beutel, RG (corresponding author), Friedrich Schiller Univ Jena, Inst Zool & Evolut Forsch, Jena, Germany.

ZOOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY, 2020; 188 (4): 1277

Abstract

Studies on the functional morphology and evolution of genitalia have been crucial to understanding sexual traits in speciation, reproductive isolation......

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