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Inaccurate mate recognition as a mating strategy of a ‘pioneer male’

Heterosubspecific mating experiments were carried out between two subspecies of cabbage butterflies, British Pieris rapae rapae and Japanese P. rapae crucivora, to examine how accurately males recognize the mates. The two subspecies are different in that the wings of female P. rapae rapae reflect li...

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Autores principales: Obara, Yoshiaki, Majerus, Mike E. N.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Japan Academy 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3559196/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19521057
http://dx.doi.org/10.2183/pjab.85.198