Postcopulatory Selection in the Yellow Dung Fly Scathophaga stercoraria (L.) and the Mate-Now-Choose-Later Mechanism of Cryptic Female Choice

Advances in the Study of Behavior

Volumn 37, Issue , 2007, Pages 343-369

  Ward, Paul I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

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EID: 35548981701     PISSN: 00653454     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0065-3454(07)37007-1     Document Type: Review

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