Lack of morphological coevolution between male forelegs and female wings in Themira (Sepsidae: Diptera: Insecta)

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 93, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 227-238

  Ingram, Krista K ^a   Laamanen, Torsten ^b   Puniamoorthy, Nalini ^c   Meier, Rudolf ^c  

^a Center for Language and Brain   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Cryptic female choice; Evolutionary arms race; Homoplasy; Phylogeny; Sexual dimorphism; Sexual selection

Indexed keywords

ARMS RACE; CLADISTICS; DIVERGENCE; FLY; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; INTERSPECIFIC VARIATION; MATE CHOICE; PHYLOGENY; RECONSTRUCTION; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SENSORY SYSTEM; SEXUAL DIMORPHISM; SEXUAL SELECTION; WING MORPHOLOGY;

DIPTERA; INSECTA; SEPSIDAE; THEMIRA; THEMIRA LEACHI; THEMIRA SUPERBA;

EID: 38049113492     PISSN: 00244066     EISSN: 10958312     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2007.00922.x     Document Type: Article

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