Flight capabilities and feeding habits of silphine beetles: Are flightless species really "carrion beetles"?

Ecological Research

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 237-241

  Ikeda, Hiroshi ^a   Kubota, Kohei ^a   Kagaya, Takashi ^a   Abe, Toshio ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b FORESTRY AND FOREST PRODUCTS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

13C; 15N; Carnivore; Flight muscle dimorphism; Necrophagous

Indexed keywords

BEETLE; CARBON ISOTOPE; CARNIVORE; CARRION; DIMORPHISM; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FLIGHT BEHAVIOR; FLIGHTLESSNESS; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; MUSCLE; NITROGEN ISOTOPE;

COLEOPTERA; INVERTEBRATA; JAPONICA; SILPHA; SILPHIDAE; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 33847361976     PISSN: 09123814     EISSN: 14401703     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11284-006-0012-1     Document Type: Article

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