Hierarchical levels of spatial structure and their consequences for the evolution of sex allocation in mites and other arthropods

American Naturalist

Volumn 148, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 16-39

  Nagelkerke, Cornelis J ^a,b   Sabelis, Maurice W ^b  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACARI; ARTHROPODA; PHYTOSEIIDAE;

MITE; SEX ALLOCATION;

EID: 0029662706     PISSN: 00030147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/285909     Document Type: Article

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