A male-biased primary sex ratio and larval mortality in Eucheira socialis (Lepidoptera: Pieridae)

Evolutionary Ecology Research

Volumn 1, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 703-717

  Underwood, Dessie L A ^a,b   Shapiro, Arthur M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Lepidoptera; Mexico; Pieridae; Sex ratio; Sex biased mortality

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001277164     PISSN: 15220613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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