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- noun Plural form of
oviduct .
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Examples
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The unborn embryos compete for survival -- embryos eat their siblings -- until only one is left in each of the paired oviducts.
Dr. Reese Halter: Protecting Great White Sharks Dr. Reese Halter 2010
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The unborn embryos compete for survival -- embryos eat their siblings -- until only one is left in each of the paired oviducts.
Dr. Reese Halter: Protecting Great White Sharks Dr. Reese Halter 2010
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She hypothesizes that the oviducts evolved as a way of blocking the sperm from unwanted males, which, in turn, drove the evolution of longer, more flexible phalluses.
Archive 2007-05-01 Peggy 2007
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She hypothesizes that the oviducts evolved as a way of blocking the sperm from unwanted males, which, in turn, drove the evolution of longer, more flexible phalluses.
Women Bring New Perspectives to Science, or The Twisty Tale of the Duck Oviduct Peggy 2007
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Brennan noted that in species with forced mating the males had larger phalluses and the females had more complex oviducts.
Women Bring New Perspectives to Science, or The Twisty Tale of the Duck Oviduct Peggy 2007
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Brennan noted that in species with forced mating the males had larger phalluses and the females had more complex oviducts.
Archive 2007-05-01 Peggy 2007
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Fallopian tubes are now more commonly and “properly” called oviducts.
Hey Dr. Egnor: At Least Galen Dissected Animals, Not Straw Men - The Panda's Thumb 2007
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Twisty maze of duck oviducts was the previous entry in this blog.
On the evolution of Irreducible Complexity - The Panda's Thumb 2007
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Female ducks have been evolving increasingly convoluted oviducts to baffle the efforts of duck rapists to inseminate them, and male ducks have been evolving concomitantly long phalluses to thread the maze and deliver sperm to the ovaries.
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Twisty maze of duck oviducts is the next entry in this blog.
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