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Original Articles

Post‐mounting courtship and the neutralizing of male competitors through “homosexual” mountings in the fly Hydromyza livens F. (Diptera: Scatophagidae)

Pages 101-105 | Accepted 15 Aug 2005, Published online: 28 Nov 2010

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