Sperm competition in butterflies and moths

Insect Evolutionary Ecology: Proceedings of the Royal Entomological Society's 22nd Symposium

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 49-82

  Wedell, Nina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

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