Rhinoceros beetle horn development reveals deep parallels with dung beetles.

Rhinoceros beetle horn development reveals deep parallels with dung beetles.

Beetle horns are attractive models for studying the evolution of novel traits, as they display diverse shapes, sizes, and numbers among closely related species within the family Scarabaeidae. Horns radiated prolifically and independently in two distant subfamilies of scarabs, the dung beetles (Scara...

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Main Authors: Takahiro Ohde, Shinichi Morita, Shuji Shigenobu, Junko Morita, Takeshi Mizutani, Hiroki Gotoh, Robert A Zinna, Moe Nakata, Yuta Ito, Kenshi Wada, Yasuhiro Kitano, Karen Yuzaki, Kouhei Toga, Mutsuki Mase, Koji Kadota, Jema Rushe, Laura Corley Lavine, Douglas J Emlen, Teruyuki Niimi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2018-10-01
Series:PLoS Genetics
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC6171792?pdf=render

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