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ArticleFrontiers in zoology2017

The male sexual apparatus in the order Scorpiones (Arachnida): a comparative study of functional morphology as a tool to define hypotheses of homology.

Lionel Monod, Lucie Cauwet, Edmundo González-Santillán, Siegfried Huber

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Article in Frontiers in zoology, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Lionel MonodDépartement des arthropodes et d'entomologie I, Muséum d'histoire naturelle, Route de Malagnou 1, 1208 Genève, Switzerland.
Lucie CauwetDépartement des arthropodes et d'entomologie I, Muséum d'histoire naturelle, Route de Malagnou 1, 1208 Genève, Switzerland.
Edmundo González-SantillánInstituto de Biotecnología, UNAM, Avenida Universidad 2001, Colonia Chamilpa C.P., 62210 Cuernavaca, Morelos México.
Siegfried HuberDépartement des arthropodes et d'entomologie I, Muséum d'histoire naturelle, Route de Malagnou 1, 1208 Genève, Switzerland.
Natural History Museum of Geneva · CH

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundInsemination in scorpions is carried out by means of a partly sclerotized structure, the spermatophore, which is composed of two separate halves, the hemispermatophores. In most genera these reproductive structures can be used to differentiate species. However, many taxa such as the genus

resultsHemispermatophores, pre- and post-insemination spermatophores, as well as the inherent mechanisms of insemination, were studied across the whole order, allowing the recognition and description of a series of five basic bauplans for the capsular region. For the most part, these patterns appear to be consistent within each major taxonomic group, but several cases of incongruence between spermatophore morphology and taxonomy raises questions about the monophyly of some clades. The Bothriuridae are traditionally regarded as a basal scorpionoid family. However, except for the genus

conclusionsSpermatophore capsular patterns appears to be congruent with a recent phylogeny of the order Scorpiones based on phylogenomic data that placed Bothriuridae outside of Scorpionoidea and

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