Sex Ratios in Adalia bipunctata Populations and Population-Genetic Significance of Male Killing

Genetika

Volumn 34, Issue 12, 1998, Pages 1630-1638

  Zakharov, I A ^a  

^a VAVILOV INSTITUTE OF GENERAL GENETICS   (Russian Federation)

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