Sexual Selection in Neotropical Species: Rules and Exceptions

Sexual Selection: Perspectives and Models from the Neotropics

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 33-52

  Peretti, Alfredo V ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE CÓRDOBA   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Biological exception; Biological rule; Neotropics; Paradigm; Scorpions; Sexual selection; Teratology; Theoretical bias; Variability

Indexed keywords

EID: 84903410143     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-416028-6.00002-5     Document Type: Chapter

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