Prolonged mating in the milkweed leaf beetle Labidomera clivicollis clivicollis (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae): a test of the "sperm-loading" hypothesis

Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 1986, Pages 331-338

  Dickinson, Janis L ^a  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

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EID: 0001594979     PISSN: 03405443     EISSN: 14320762     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00299664     Document Type: Article

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