Nuptial gifts and sexual selection in Photinus fireflies

Integrative and Comparative Biology

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 234-237

  Lewis, Sara M ^a   Cratsley, Christopher K ^a,b   Rooney, Jennifer A ^a  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b FITCHBURG STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLEOPTERA; LAMPYRIDAE; PHOTINUS;

EID: 4444333871     PISSN: 15407063     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/icb/44.3.234     Document Type: Conference Paper

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