Reference: McCullough, J.D. and Lee, R.D., 1980. An ecological study of the rare rotifer species Trochosphaera solstitialis (Thorpe 1893) and the first report of the male. Hydrobiologia, 71(1-2), pp.7-18.
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Reference: Austin, C.R., and Short, R.V. eds., 1986. Reproduction in Mammals. Cambridge University Press.
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Brennan, P.L., Clark, C.J. and Prum, R.O., 2010. Explosive eversion and functional morphology of the duck penis supports sexual conflict in waterfowl genitalia. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 277(1686), pp.1309-1314.
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Reference: Johnston, S.D., Smith, B., Pyne, M., Stenzel, D. and Holt, W.V., 2007. One-sided ejaculation of echidna sperm bundles. The American Naturalist, 170(6), pp.E162-E164.
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Reference: Chapman, R.F. and Chapman, R.F., 1998. The insects: structure and function. Cambridge university press.
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These poor worms in phyla Priapulida mate through external fertilization.
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Kelly, D.A., 2013. Penile anatomy and hypotheses of erectile function in the American alligator (Alligator mississippiensis): muscular eversion and elastic retraction. The Anatomical Record, 296(3), pp.488-494.
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Reference: Keogh, J.S., 1999. Evolutionary implications of hemipenial morphology in the terrestrial Australian elapid snakes. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 125(2), pp.239-278.
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References: Klimley, A.P., 2013. The biology of sharks and rays. University of Chicago Press.
Jones, C.J., Walker, T.I., Bell, J.D., Reardon, M.B., Ambrosio, C.E., Almeida, A. and Hamlett, W.C., 2005. Male genital ducts and copulatory appendages in chondrichthyans. Reproductive Biology and Phylogeny of Chondrichthyes: Sharks, Batoids and Chimaeras, ed. WC Hamlett, pp.361-393.
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