Assortative mating in soldier beetles (Cantharidae: Chauliognathus): Test of the mate-choice hypothesis

Great Basin Naturalist

Volumn 59, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 188-192

  Bernstein, Ruth ^a   Bernstein, Stephen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Assortative mating; Chauliognathus basalis; Chauliognathus deceptus; Mate choice; Soldier beetles

Indexed keywords

CHAULIOGNATHUS; CHAULIOGNATHUS BASALIS; CHAULIOGNATHUS DECEPTUS;

EID: 0033048803     PISSN: 00173614     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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