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Frequent origins of traumatic insemination involve convergent shifts in sperm and genital morphology

Frequent origins of traumatic insemination involve convergent shifts in sperm and genital morphology

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Frequent origins of traumatic insemination involve convergent shifts in sperm and genital morphology

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Frequent origins of traumatic insemination involve convergent shifts in sperm and genital morphology

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Cold Spring Harbor: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

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bioRxiv, 2021-03

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English

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Cold Spring Harbor: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

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Traumatic insemination is a mating behaviour during which the (sperm) donor uses a traumatic intromittent organ to inject an ejaculate through the epidermis of the (sperm) recipient, thereby frequently circumventing the female genitalia. Traumatic insemination occurs widely across animals, but the frequency of its evolution, the intermediate stages...

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Frequent origins of traumatic insemination involve convergent shifts in sperm and genital morphology

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TN_cdi_proquest_journals_2505436665

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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_proquest_journals_2505436665

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2692-8205

DOI

10.1101/2021.02.16.431427