Antennal asymmetry and sexual selection in a cerambycid beetle

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 54, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 1509-1515

  Møller, Anders Pape ^a   Zamora Muñoz, Carmen ^b  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTENNAL SYMMETRY; FLUCTUATING ASYMMETRY; SEXUAL SELECTION;

CERAMBYCIDAE; COLEOPTERA; STENURELLA; STENURELLA MELANURA;

EID: 0031443604     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1997.0565     Document Type: Article

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