Nuptial gift size prolongs copulation duration in the dance fly Empis borealis
- 1 May 1990
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Ecological Entomology
- Vol. 15 (2) , 225-229
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2311.1990.tb00803.x
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