Compromised strategy resolves intersexual conflict over pre-copulatory guarding duration

Evolutionary Ecology

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 661-680

  Yamamura, Norio ^a   Jormalainen, Veijo ^b,c  

^a SAGA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^c NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

compromised solution; intersexual conflict; mating cycle synchronicity; pre copulatory mate guarding; sex ratio

Indexed keywords

GUARDING; INTERSEXUAL CONFLICT; MATE GUARDING; PRECOPULATORY BEHAVIOUR; SEX RATIO;

EID: 0030303087     PISSN: 02697653     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF01237713     Document Type: Article

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