Measuring the mating skew

American Naturalist

Volumn 149, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 794-799

  Kokko, Hanna ^a   Lindström, Jan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

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EID: 0001119671     PISSN: 00030147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/286023     Document Type: Review

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