Male mating success and survival in the field with respect to size and courtship song characters in Drosophila littoralis and D. montana (Diptera: Drosophilidae)

Journal of Insect Behavior

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 1995, Pages 67-87

  Aspi, Jouni ^a   Hoikkala, Anneli ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

Author keywords

love songs; mating success; morphology; natural selection; sexual selection

Indexed keywords

DROSOPHILA LITTORALIS; DROSOPHILA MONTANA;

EID: 0029104778     PISSN: 08927553     EISSN: 15728889     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF01990970     Document Type: Article

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