| Description |
ix, 537 p. : ill. ; 26 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction : Celebrating and understanding reproductive diversity / Janet L. Leonard -- The distinction between primary and secondary sexual characters / Michael T. Ghiselin -- The evolution of sexes, anisogamy, and sexual systems : natural vs. sexual selection / Janet L. Leonard -- Rapid divergent evolution of genitalia : theory and data updated / William G. Eberhard -- Killing time : a mechanism of sexual conflict and sexual selection / Patricia Adair Gowaty, Stephen P. Hubbell -- Gamete release and spawning behavior in broadcast spawning marine invertebrates / Katie E. Lotterhos, Don R. Levitan -- Prosobranchs with internal fertilization / Alan N. Hodgson -- Opisthobranchs / Angel Valdes, Terrence M. Gosliner, Michael T. Ghiselin -- Basommatophoran gastropods / Philippe Jarne ... [et al.] -- Stylommatophoran gastropods / Bruno Baur -- An ancient indirect sex model : single and mixed patterns in the evolution of scorpion genitalia / Alfredo V. Peretti -- Spider genitalia : precise maneuvers with a numb structure in a complex lock / William G. Eberhard, Bernhard A. Huber -- Genitalic evolution in Opiliones / Rogelio Macias-Ordoņez ... [et al.] -- The evolution of male and female internal reproductive organs in insects / Nina Wedell, David J. Hosken -- Selective forces propelling genitalic evolution in Odonata / Adolfo Cordero Rivera, Alex Cordoba-Aguilar -- Postcopulatory sexual selection in the Coleoptera : mechanisms and consequences / Paul Eady -- Fertilization mode, sperm competition, and cryptic female choice shape primary sexual characters in fish / Michael Taborsky, Francis C. Neat -- Evolution of primary sexual characters in amphibians / Lynne D. Houck, Paul A. Verrell -- Evolution of primary sexual characters in reptiles / Tobias Uller, Devi Stuart-Fox, Mats Olsson -- Sexual conflict and the intromittent organs of male birds / Robert Montgomerie -- Genitalic traits of mammals : systematics and variation / Edward H. Miller -- The evolution of primary sexual characters in animals : a summary / Alex Cordoba-Aguilar. |
| Subject |
Generative organs -- Evolution.
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Sexual selection in animals.
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Genitalia. |
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Animal Structures. |
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Evolution. |
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Mating Preference, Animal. |
| Added Author |
Leonard, Janet L. (Janet Louise), 1953-
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Cordoba-Aguilar, Alex.
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| ISBN |
9780195325553 (hbk. : alk. paper) |
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0195325559 (hbk. : alk. paper) |
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