BACKGROUND Nearly-complete labial adhesions diagnosed with repetitive cystitis in postmenopausal women:A case report CASE SUMMARY The case of an 83-year-old woman who presented with dysuria,urination disorders,recurre...
Genitourinary (GU) melanoma is a rare presentation of melanoma accounting for approximately 0.5% of all melanomas.GU melanomas include primary melanomas of the vulva,vagina,uterine cervix,ovary,penis,scrotum,urethra,b...
Trauma to the male genitalia is not very common and mainly affects a young population. There is probably a particular instinct in men to defend their external genitalia;indeed, in the flaccid state, the penis is littl...
supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China(31970400);the Second Tibetan Plateau Scientific Expedition and Research(STEP)program(2019QZKK0501)。
A new species group of the genus Lilioceris Reitter,1913 is proposed and keyed as neptis group,characterized by adults with mesoventral process widened,tuberculate,and horizontally connected with mesoventrite.It inclu...
We thank T.Mishina,K.Watanabe,M.Hoso,S.Ya-mamoto,and members of Animal Ecology Laboratory of Kyoto University for various supports and discussion.This study was supported by JSPS KAKENHI(Grant No.26251044,18H04010 to T.S.).
To investigate the developmental genetics of genital formation in the carabid beetle Carabus maiyasanus,we compared gene expression patterns among five stages using transcriptomic RNA sequencing data from abdominal se...
This research was financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(31601691 and 31272089).The authors thank Dr.Xue Shuang(Anyang In stitute of Tech no logy,Henan Province,China)for technical assistanee in dissecting genitalia.
The oriental armyworm,Mythimna separata(Lepidoptera:Noctuidae)is a harmful pest which causes heavy loss in agricultural crops.Sex identification of M.separata is very important for understanding the biology and manage...
This project received funding(to Hongying Sun)from the the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.31471972 and 31772427).
One of the most striking radiations in brachyuran evolution is the considerable morphological diversification of the external reproductive structures of primary freshwater crabs:the male first gonopod(G1)and the femal...
This work was supported by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft,Grant Number TO914/2-1 to J.T-D.
Asymmetries in bilateral organisms attract a lot of curiosity given that they are conspicuous departures from the norm.They allow the investigation of the integration at different levels of biological organization.Her...
the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 31330071,31772519);Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong Province (Grant No. S2012010010185,2017A030313210).
Fusion of the testis occurs in most Lepidoptera insects, including Spodoptera litura, an important polyphagous pest. Testicular fusion in S. litura is advantageous for male reproduction, and the molecular mechanism of...
This project was financed by the Swiss Science Foundation(grant nb.P2BEP3_168709);N.J.F.and by the National Science Center,Poland(grant nb.DEC-2013/10/E/NZ8/00725)。
Penises play a key role in sperm transport and in stimulating female genitals.This should impact post-copulatory competition,and expose penis characteristics to sexual selective pressures.Studies of male genitalia hav...