Coevolution of male and female genital morphology in waterfowl.

Most birds have simple genitalia; males lack external genitalia and females have simple vaginas. However, male waterfowl have a phallus whose length (1.5->40 cm) and morphological elaborations vary among species and are positively correlated with the frequency of forced extra-pair copulations amo...

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Main Authors: Patricia L R Brennan, Richard O Prum, Kevin G McCracken, Michael D Sorenson, Robert E Wilson, Tim R Birkhead
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2007-05-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC1855079?pdf=render