Polyandrous female butterflies forage for matings

Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

Volumn 35, Issue 6, 1994, Pages 385-388

  Kaitala, Arja ^a   Wiklund, Christer ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Butterfly; Ejaculate; Mating frequency; Pieris napi

Indexed keywords

EID: 0028190102     PISSN: 03405443     EISSN: 14320762     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00165840     Document Type: Article

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