An ESS treatment of the pattern of female arrival at the mating site in the yellow dung fly Scathophaga stercoraria (L.)

Journal of Theoretical Biology

Volumn 195, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 363-370

  Reuter, Max ^a,b   Ward, Paul I ^b   Blanckenhorn, Wolf U ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; EVOLUTIONARILY STABLE STRATEGY; FEMALE BEHAVIOR; FLY; REPRODUCTIVE BEHAVIOR;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; COMPETITION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVOLUTION; FLY; MATING; NATURAL SELECTION; NONHUMAN; POPULATION GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

DIPTERA; MUSCIDAE; SCATHOPHAGA STERCORARIA;

EID: 0032495025     PISSN: 00225193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jtbi.1998.0795     Document Type: Article

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