Is male germ line control creating avenues for female choice?

Behavioral Ecology

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 109-112

  Folstad, Ivar ^a   Skarstein, Frode ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

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EID: 0030939507     PISSN: 10452249     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/beheco/8.1.109     Document Type: Review

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