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The Costs of Confronting Infanticidal Intruders in a Burying Beetle

✍ Scribed by Stephen T. Trumbo; Richard C. Valletta

Book ID
108894023
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
2007
Tongue
English
Weight
489 KB
Volume
113
Category
Article
ISSN
1439-0310

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