The effects of latitude, body size, and sexual selection on wing shape in a damselfly

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 102, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 263-274

  Outomuro, David ^a   Johansson, Frank ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OVIEDO   (Spain)

^b UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Calopteryx; Centroid size; Flight performance; Geometric morphometrics; Pigmentation

Indexed keywords

BODY SIZE; FLIGHT BEHAVIOR; FLY; GEOMETRY; INTERSPECIFIC VARIATION; INTRASPECIFIC VARIATION; LATITUDINAL GRADIENT; MORPHOMETRY; OPTIMIZATION; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; PIGMENT; SEX-RELATED DIFFERENCE; SEXUAL DIMORPHISM; SEXUAL SELECTION; WING MORPHOLOGY;

CALOPTERYGIDAE; CALOPTERYX; ZYGOPTERA;

EID: 78751519339     PISSN: 00244066     EISSN: 10958312     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2010.01591.x     Document Type: Article

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