… As noted previously for genital asymmetry in insects and spiders, there is no single explanation
for the evolution of this trait, but some generalizations can be made. In contrast to insects …

… asymmetric male genitals in Entelegynae spiders. Generalities, evolution and categorization
of asymmetry in spiders … that in comparison to insects, most spider asymmetry originates in …

… have positionally asymmetrical internal female genitalia (eg M. … asymmetry has evolved
only once in Mecolaesthus, constituting the fourth independent origin of structural asymmetry …

… Sternorrynchan bugs—scale insects, aphids, and relatives—often … Gravity thus forces heavy
spiders to make their webs asymmetric to … of somatic and genital size evolution on the other. …

… The Trogloraptor female genital … evolved at least six times independently within spiders.
Moreover, our results indicate that the peculiar organization of the dysderoid female genitalia …

… The evolution of left-right asymmetric genitalia in insects is a case where morphology was
… to have evolved in response to changes in mating behavior [17]. Asymmetric genitalia are …

… to demonstrate that female genitalia can be highly diverse and covary with the genitalia of
males. … mechanisms of genital evolution in females: species isolating ‘lock‐and‐key’ evolution, …

… Female resistance to males with asymmetrically shortened titillators was reduced when the
… More than a hundred species in a wide range of insect and spider taxa on oceanic islands …

… success, and a pivotal role of the female genital morphology in the evolution of handedness.
… Alternatively, the asymmetrically arranged sensilla might function to sense proper …

… be driven by female genital morphology 12 . Male and female waterfowl have asymmetric
genitalia that spiral in opposite directions and females have evolved behavioral strategies to …