Allometry between leg and body length of insects: lack of support for the size–grain hypothesis

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• Publication year

  2009

• Venue

  Ecological Entomology

• Publication date

  2009-12-01

• Fields of study

  Biology

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  DOI 10.1111/j.1365-2311.2009.01124.x
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar

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