The function of nuptial feeding in insects: Review of empirical studies

Biological Reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society

Volumn 73, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 43-78

  Vahed, Karim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DERBY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Courtship feeding; Mating effort; Nuptial gifts; Paternal investment; Sexual cannibalism; Sperm competition; Spermatophore; Spermatophylax

Indexed keywords

COLEOPTERA; COPULATION; COURTSHIP; DROSOPHILA; FEEDING; HYPOTHESIS; INSECT; LEPIDOPTERA; MATING; NONHUMAN; REVIEW;

EID: 0031935896     PISSN: 00063231     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0006323197005112     Document Type: Review

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