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Although sex-biased genes differed between species, the study showed that the types of cells that are sexually dimorphic are the same across species.

From Science Daily • Nov. 2, 2023

These come in two "dimorphic" sizes, "small worker cells and large reproductive cells, which forces the builders to join differently sized hexagons," the authors explain.

From Salon • Jul. 27, 2023

His masculinist fantasy of himself is structurally dimorphic; it requires an approving female presence to authorize and excuse and interpret.

From Slate • Jun. 15, 2019

Here we use the informative fossil record of cytheroid ostracods—small, bivalved crustaceans with sexually dimorphic carapaces—to test how sexual selection relates to actual species extinction.

From Nature • Apr. 10, 2018

Almost at the same time, and in following years, he wrote papers for the Linnean Society on dimorphic and trimorphic forms of flowers, and their bearing on the question of cross-fertilisation.

From The Coming of Evolution The Story of a Great Revolution in Science by John W.