One size fits all? Relationships between the size and degree of variation in genitalia and other body parts in twenty species of insects and spiders

Evolution

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 415-431

  Eberhard, William G ^a,b   Huber, Bernhard A ^a,c   Rafael Lucas Rodriguez, S ^a   Daniel Briceno R ^a   Salas, Isabel ^a   Rodriguez, Viterbo ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE COSTA RICA   (Costa Rica)

^b SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

^c DIVISION OF INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSIDAD DE PANAMÁ   (Panama)

Author keywords

Allometry; Genitalia; Sexual selection

Indexed keywords

BODY SIZE; GENITALIA; INSECT; SEXUAL SELECTION; SPIDER;

ARANEAE; HEXAPODA; INSECTA;

EID: 0031899562     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.1998.tb01642.x     Document Type: Article

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