Trilobite spines and beetle horns: Sexual selection in the Palaeozoic?

Biology Letters

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 196-199

  Knell, Robert J ^a   Fortey, Richard A ^b  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Raphioridae; Secondary sexual characteristics; Sexual selection; Trilobite

Indexed keywords

MORPHOLOGY; PALEOZOIC; SECONDARY SEXUAL CHARACTERISTICS; SEXUAL SELECTION;

ALLOMETRY; ARTHROPOD; ARTICLE; BEETLE; BIODIVERSITY; HORN; HYDRODYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; ONTOGENY; PALEOZOIC; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEXUAL SELECTION; SPINE; TRILOBITE;

ARTHROPODA; COLEOPTERA; DIMORPHA; ORYCTES RHINOCEROS; TRILOBITOMORPHA;

EID: 25444518748     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2005.0304     Document Type: Article

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