Morphological Correlates of a Combat Performance Trait in the Forked Fungus Beetle, Bolitotherus cornutus

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Kyle M. Benowitz,

Affiliation Mountain Lake Biological Station, Department of Biology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America
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Edmund D. Brodie III,

Affiliation Mountain Lake Biological Station, Department of Biology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America
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Vincent A. Formica

* E-mail: vince.formica@gmail.com

Affiliation Department of Biology, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, United States of America
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Combat between two forked fungus beetle (Bolithoterus cornutus) males
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