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Emergence patterns in male butterflies: A hypothesis and a test

✍ Scribed by Yoh Iwasa; Francois J. Odendaal; Dennis D. Murphy; Paul R. Ehrlich; Alan E. Launer

Book ID
116071842
Publisher
Elsevier Science
Year
1983
Tongue
English
Weight
972 KB
Volume
23
Category
Article
ISSN
0040-5809

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