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

Kyle M. Benowitz; Edmund D. Brodie III; Vincent A. Formica

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0042738

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

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

Kyle M. Benowitz,
Edmund D. Brodie III,
Vincent A. Formica

Published: August 15, 2012
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0042738

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