Male choice, willingness to mate and body size in seaweed flies (Diptera: Coelopidae)

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 57, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 847-853

  Dunn, Derek W ^a   Crean, Caroline S ^a   Wilson, Catherine L ^a   Gilburn, Andre S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BODY SIZE; MATE CHOICE; REPRODUCTIVE STRATEGY;

COELOPA FRIGIDA; COELOPA NEBULARUM; COELOPA PILIPES; COELOPA URSINA; COELOPA VANDUZEEI; COELOPIDAE; DIPTERA;

EID: 0033119371     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1998.1041     Document Type: Article

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