Sexual selection on land snail shell ornamentation: a hypothesis that may explain shell diversity
<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Many groups of land snails show great interspecific diversity in shell ornamentation, which may include spines on the shell and flanges on the aperture. Such structures have been explained as camouflage or defence, but the possibilit...
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| Language: | English |
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BMC
2003-06-01
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| Series: | BMC Evolutionary Biology |
| Online Access: | http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2148/3/13 |