Being big or emerging early? Polyandry and the trade-off between size and emergence in male butterflies

American Naturalist

Volumn 147, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 946-965

  Zonneveld, C ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PAPILIONOIDEA; LEPIDOPTERA;

EMERGENCE; TRADE-OFF;

EID: 0029661310     PISSN: 00030147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/285887     Document Type: Article

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