Body-size evolution: How to evolve a mammoth moth

Current Biology

Volumn 11, Issue 22, 2001, Pages

  Stern, David ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; INVERTEBRATA; LEPIDOPTERA;

EID: 0035856496     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0960-9822(01)00554-1     Document Type: Review

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