Resource presence and operational sex ratio as determinants of copulation duration in the fly Rhagoletis juglandis

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 57, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 1063-1069

  Alonso Pimentel, Henar ^a   Papaj, Daniel R ^b  

^a University of Arizona   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

JUGLANS; RHAGOLETIS JUGLANDIS; TEPHRITIDAE;

EID: 0033134621     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1998.1079     Document Type: Article

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