Habitat complexity drives experimental evolution of a conditionally expressed secondary sexual trait

Current Biology

Volumn 21, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 569-573

  Tomkins, Joseph L ^a   Hazel, Wade N ^b   Penrose, Marissa A ^a   Radwan, Jacek W ^c   Lebas, Natasha R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b DEPAUW UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACARIDAE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BODY SIZE; ECOSYSTEM; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; HISTOLOGY; MALE; PHENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGY; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR;

ACARIDAE; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BODY SIZE; ECOSYSTEM; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIATION; MALE; PHENOTYPE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL;

ACARI; RHIZOGLYPHUS ECHINOPUS;

EID: 79953800316     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2011.02.032     Document Type: Article

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