Developmental Stability and Adaptive Variability of Male Genitalia in Sexually Dimorphic Beetles

American Naturalist

Volumn 163, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 1-15

  Kawano, Kazuo ^a  

^a KOBE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Character displacement; Coleoptera; Genitalia variability; Reproductive isolation

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; BEETLE; DEVELOPMENTAL STABILITY; REPRODUCTIVE BIOLOGY; REPRODUCTIVE ISOLATION; SPECIATION (BIOLOGY);

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ASIA; BEETLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GENETIC SELECTION; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HISTOLOGY; MALE; MALE GENITAL SYSTEM; MORPHOMETRICS; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCTION; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; ASIA; BEETLES; BODY WEIGHTS AND MEASURES; GENITALIA, MALE; MALE; REPRODUCTION; SELECTION (GENETICS); SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

ANIMALIA; COLEOPTERA; LUCANIDAE; SCARABAEIDAE;

EID: 1242298923     PISSN: 00030147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/379796     Document Type: Article

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