Patterns of threshold evolution in polyphenic insects under different developmental models

Evolution

Volumn 63, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 459-468

  Tomkins, Joseph L ^a   Moczek, Armin P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Alternative tactics; Dimorphism; Earwig; Horned beetles; Onthophagus; Plasticity; Polyphenism; Sexual selection

Indexed keywords

ALLOMETRY; BEETLE; DIMORPHISM; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; MORPHOLOGY; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; SEXUAL SELECTION;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BEETLE; EVOLUTION; GENETICS; HISTOLOGY; INSECT; MALE;

ANIMALS; BEETLES; EVOLUTION; INSECTS; MALE;

COLEOPTERA; FORFICULA AURICULARIA; HEXAPODA; ONTHOPHAGUS; ONTHOPHAGUS TAURUS;

EID: 58849144666     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: 15585646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2008.00563.x     Document Type: Article

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