Diet-dependent female choice for males with 'good genes' in a soil predatory mite

Nature

Volumn 401, Issue 6753, 1999, Pages 581-584

  Lesna, Izabela ^a   Sabelis, Maurice W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MATE CHOICE; MITE; POLYMORPHISM;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BREEDING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; MALE; MITE; NATURAL SELECTION; NONHUMAN; PREDATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ACARI; ANIMALIA; ARACHNIDA; INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 0033533893     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/44125     Document Type: Article

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