Sexual selection, viability selection, and developmental stability in the domestic fly Musca domestica

Evolution

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 746-752

  Møller, Anders Pape ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Developmental stability; Enthomophthora muscae; Musca domestica; Parasitism; Predation; Sexual selection

Indexed keywords

BARN SWALLOW; DEVELOPMENTAL STABILITY; DOMESTIC FLY; ENTOMOPATHOGENIC FUNGUS; FLUCTUATING ASYMMETRY; MATING SUCCESS; SEXUAL SELECTION;

DIPTERA; ENTHOMOPHTHORA MUSCAE; ENTOMOPHTHORALES; HIRUNDO RUSTICA; MUSCA DOMESTICA; MUSCIDAE; ZYGOMYCETES;

EID: 0029775955     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.1996.tb03884.x     Document Type: Article

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