Body mass and not wing length predicts territorial success in a tropical satyrine butterfly

Ethology

Volumn 114, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 1069-1077

  Peixoto, Paulo Enrique Cardoso ^a   Benson, Woodruff W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BODY MASS; BUTTERFLY; FAT; MUSCLE; REMOVAL EXPERIMENT; TERRITORIALITY; WING MORPHOLOGY;

EID: 53749100589     PISSN: 01791613     EISSN: 14390310     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0310.2008.01555.x     Document Type: Article

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