The earliest case of extreme sexual display with exaggerated male organs by two Middle Jurassic mecopterans.

<h4>Background</h4>Many extant male animals exhibit exaggerated body parts for display, defense or offence in sexual selection, such as male birds of paradise showing off colorful and elegant feathers and male moose and reindeers bearing large structured antlers. For insects, male rhinoc...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Qi Wang, Chungkun Shih, Dong Ren
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/23977031/pdf/?tool=EBI