Inequality of opportunity: Measuring the potential for sexual selection

Evolutionary Ecology Research

Volumn 3, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 667-686

  Fairbairn, Daphne J ^a   Wilby, Angela E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science   (Canada)

Author keywords

Mating success; Morisita's index of dispersion; Opportunity for selection; Relative fitness; Resource monopolization; Sexual selection; Tenebrio molitor

Indexed keywords

EID: 0012592937     PISSN: 15220613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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