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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Main Authors: Qi Wang, Chungkun Shih, Dong Ren
Format: article
Language:EN
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013
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Online Access:https://doaj.org/article/a52bc5f3fa7e40b8be479917ff330722
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