Genitals evolve faster than other traits in Anolis lizards_reviewed
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Genitals evolve faster than other traits in Anolis lizards
Male genitalia are thought to be particularly rapidly evolving morphological structures, but there have been few quantitative interspecific comparisons between the evolutionary rates of genital and nongenital traits. We characterize the morphology of hemipenes in 25 Caribbean Anolis lizard species, and compare rates of hemipenial evolution to those of traits related to ecology or visual signali...
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