Artificial selection on horn length-body size allometry in the horned beetle Onthophagus acuminatus (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae)

Evolution

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 1219-1230

  Emlen, Douglas J ^a,b  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Allometry; artificial selection; dimorphism; horned beetle; Onthophagus acuminatus; threshold

Indexed keywords

COLEOPTERA; ONTHOPHAGUS; ONTHOPHAGUS ACUMINATUS; SCARABAEIDAE; SIGMOIDEA;

BODY SIZE; HORN LENGTH;

EID: 0030442484     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.1996.tb02362.x     Document Type: Article

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