Linking nectar amino acids to fitness in female butterflies

Trends in Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 20, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 585-587

  Jervis, Mark A ^a   Boggs, Carol L ^b  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; BUTTERFLY; FITNESS; MUTUALISM; NECTAR; PLANT-POLLINATOR INTERACTION;

ANIMALIA; ARASCHNIA LEVANA; PAPILIONOIDEA;

EID: 27144507089     PISSN: 01695347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tree.2005.08.015     Document Type: Short Survey

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