Artificial selection for a courtship signal in Drosophila melanogaster

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 603-611

  Ritchie, Michael G ^a   Kyriacou, Charalambos P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; MELANOGASTER; DIPTERA; DROSOPHILIDAE;

COURTSHIP; SIGNAL;

EID: 0030222866     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1996.0201     Document Type: Article

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