On the selective forces acting in the industrial melanism of Biston and Oligia moths (Lepidoptera: Geometridae and Noctuidae)
- 1 April 1984
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Biological Journal of the Linnean Society
- Vol. 21 (4) , 409-421
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1095-8312.1984.tb01602.x
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