Assortative mating in insects: Sexual selection vs. sampling artifact

Western North American Naturalist

Volumn 63, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 374-381

  Bernstein, Ruth ^a   Bernstein, Stephen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Assortative mating; Chauliognathus; Sampling; Sexual selection; Soldier beetles; Spatial covariation

Indexed keywords

CHAULIOGNATHUS; COLEOPTERA; HEXAPODA; INSECTA;

EID: 0041976980     PISSN: 15270904     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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