Sexual dimorphism in wing beat frequency in relation to eye span in stalk-eyed flies (Diopsidae)

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 104, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 670-679

  Husak, Jerry F ^a   Ribak, Gal ^b   Wilkinson, Gerald S ^c   Swallow, John G ^a  

^a W O Farber Center for Civic Leadership   (United States)

^b TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^c Bldg 142   (United States)

Author keywords

Compensation; Flight; Locomotion; Sexual selection

Indexed keywords

EVOLUTIONARILY STABLE STRATEGY; EYE; FITNESS; FLIGHT; FLY; KINEMATICS; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; ORNAMENTATION; PREDATION RISK; REPRODUCTIVE COST; SEXUAL DIMORPHISM; SEXUAL SELECTION; WING MORPHOLOGY;

DIOPSIDAE;

EID: 80054682230     PISSN: 00244066     EISSN: 10958312     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2011.01758.x     Document Type: Article

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