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Diverse, continuous, and plastic sexual systems in barnacles.
Integrative and comparative biology - 1 Oct 2013
Yusa Yoichi, Takemura Mayuko, Sawada Kota, Yamaguchi Sachi
Abstract excerpt
Barnacles (Crustacea: Thoracica) show diverse sexual systems, including simultaneous hermaphroditism, androdioecy (hermaphrodites + males), and dioecy (females + males). When males occur, they are always much smaller (called dwarf males) than conspecific hermaphrodites or females. Ever since Darwin made this discovery, many scientists have been fascinated by such diversity. In this study, we provide an overview...
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