Sexual selection and horn allometry in the dung beetle Euoniticellus intermedius

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 71, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 567-576

  Pomfret, Joanne C ^a   Knell, Robert J ^a  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLOMETRY; BEETLE; HORN; SEXUAL SELECTION;

ANIMALIA; COLEOPTERA; EUONITICELLUS INTERMEDIUS; INSECTA;

EID: 33644656276     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2005.05.023     Document Type: Article

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