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Volume 155, Number 17 (April 24, 1999)

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Nuptial balloons: Size doesn't matter

The first analysis of shiny saliva balloons that male dance flies clutch as courtship gifts shows that bigger isn't always better.

References:

Sadowski, J.A., A.J. Moore, and E.D. Brodie, III. 1999. The evolution of empty nuptial gifts in a dance fly, Empis snoddyi (Diptera: Empididae): Bigger isn't always better. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 45(March):161.

Sources:

Allen Moore
National Science Foundation
Population Biology
Room 635
4201 Wilson Boulevard
Arlington, VA 22230

Jennifer Sadowski
University of Kentucky
School of Biological Sciences
Center for Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior
101 T.H. Morgan Building
Lexington, KY 40506-0225

From Science News, Vol. 155, No. 17, April 24, 1999, p. 267. Copyright © 1999, Science Service.

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