Parasites promote mating success: The case of a midge and a mite

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 57, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 1199-1205

  McLachlan, Athol ^a  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERSPECIFIC INTERACTION; MATING SUCCESS;

ACARI; CHIRONOMIDAE; CHIRONOMUS THUMMI; DIPTERA; PARATRICHOCLADIUS RUFIVENTRIS; UNIONICOLA YPSILOPHORA;

EID: 0032986669     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1999.1087     Document Type: Article

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