Enhanced water conservation in clusters of convergent lady beetles, Hippodamia convergens

Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata

Volumn 85, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 87-89

  Yoder, J A ^a   Smith, B E ^a  

^a ILLINOIS COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLEOPTERA; HIPPODAMIA CONVERGENS;

EID: 0030808789     PISSN: 00138703     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1570-7458.1997.00237.x     Document Type: Article

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