Firefly courtship: Behavioral and morphological predictors of male mating success in Photinus greeni

Ethology

Volumn 112, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 485-492

  Demary, Kristian ^a   Michaelidis, Constantinos I ^b   Lewis, Sara M ^a  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SWARTHMORE COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; BIOLUMINESCENCE; INSECT; MATING BEHAVIOR; MORPHOLOGY; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR;

COLEOPTERA; LAMPYRIDAE; PHOTINUS; PHOTINUS GREENI; PHOTURIS;

EID: 33645879211     PISSN: 01791613     EISSN: 14390310     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0310.2005.01176.x     Document Type: Article

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