Division of labour and extended parenting in a desert tenebrionid beetle

Ethology

Volumn 105, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 37-56

  Rasa, O Anne E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LABOR DIVISION; PARENTAL CARE; REPRODUCTIVE BEHAVIOR;

ARTHROPODA; COLEOPTERA; PARASTIZOPUS; PARASTIZOPUS ARMATICEPS; TENEBRIONIDAE;

EID: 0344573011     PISSN: 01791613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0310.1999.tb01219.x     Document Type: Article

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