Rhinoceros beetle horn development reveals deep parallels with dung beetles
Rhinoceros beetle horn development reveals deep parallels with dung beetles
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Ohde, Takahiro , Morita, Shinichi , Shigenobu, Shuji , Morita, Junko , Mizutani, Takeshi , Gotoh, Hiroki , Zinna, Robert A. , Nakata, Moe , Ito, Yuta , Wada, Kenshi , Kitano, Yasuhiro , Yuzaki, Karen , Toga, Kouhei , Mase, Mutsuki , Kadota, Koji , Rushe, Jema , Lavine, Laura Corley , Emlen, Douglas J. and Niimi, Teruyuki
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United States: Public Library of Science
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Beetle horns are attractive models for studying the evolution of novel traits, as they display diverse shapes, sizes, and numbers among closely related species within the family Scarabaeidae. Horns radiated prolifically and independently in two distant subfamilies of scarabs, the dung beetles (Scarabaeinae), and the rhinoceros beetles (Dynastinae)....
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Rhinoceros beetle horn development reveals deep parallels with dung beetles
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TN_cdi_plos_journals_2251019584
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_plos_journals_2251019584
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1553-7404,1553-7390
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1553-7404
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10.1371/journal.pgen.1007651
