Climbing to reach females: Romeo should be small.

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Published in Evolution on February 01, 2002

Authors

Jordi Moya-Laraño1, Juraj Halaj, David H Wise

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Entomology, University of Kentucky, Lexington 40546-0091, USA. jmoya2@uky.edu

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