A test of how well the repeatability of courtship predicts its heritability

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 55, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 1141-1150

  Aragaki, Dixie Lynne R ^a,c   Meffert, Lisa M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b University of Houston   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUZZING; COURTSHIP; HERITABILITY; REPEATABILITY;

DIPTERA; MUSCA DOMESTICA; MUSCIDAE;

EID: 0032077218     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1997.0653     Document Type: Article

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