WormBase Tree Display for Phenotype: WBPhenotype:0001522
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WBPhenotype:0001522 | Description | The elongated sclerotized structures covered by a hardened layer of cuticle in the male tail (which are actively everted during copulation to fasten the male copulatory fan to the vulva) constitutively extend into the external environment through the cloacal opening. In C. elegans males there are two copulatory spicules. | Person_evidence | WBPerson2021 |
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Curator_confirmed | WBPerson557 | |||
Name | Primary_name | spicules protrude | ||
Related_phenotypes | Specialisation_of | WBPhenotype:0000908 | ||
Attribute_of | Variation (17) | |||
Not_in_Variation | WBVar00144039 |