Do current hypotheses explain continental and seasonal variation in female morph frequencies of the damselfly, Nehalennia irene?

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 90, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 501-508

  Van Gossum, Hans ^a,b   Beirinckx, Kirsten ^a   Forbes, Mark R ^a   Sherratt, Thomas N ^a  

^a CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Cline; Female colour morphs; Geographical variation; Male mimicry; Phenology; Sex limited polymorphism; Zygoptera

Indexed keywords

CLINE; COLOR MORPH; COVARIANCE ANALYSIS; DAMSELFLY; GENETIC DRIFT; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION; MIMICRY; PHENOLOGY; POLYMORPHISM; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEX-RELATED DIFFERENCE; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

CANADA; NORTH AMERICA;

NEHALENNIA IRENE; ZYGOPTERA;

EID: 33847199384     PISSN: 00244066     EISSN: 10958312     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2007.00740.x     Document Type: Article

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