The genetic component of copula duration in the yellow dung fly

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 51, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 1401-1407

  Mühlhäuser, Claudia ^a   Blanckenhorn, Wolf U ^b   Ward, Paul I ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; YELLOW DUNG FLY;

DIPTERA; MUSCIDAE; SCATHOPHAGA; SCATHOPHAGA STERCORARIA;

EID: 0030153415     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1996.0143     Document Type: Article

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