Female preference for multiple partners: Sperm competition in the hide beetle, Dermestes maculatus (DeGeer)

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 58, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 669-675

  Archer, Melanie S ^a   Elgar, Mark A ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEETLE; EXTRA-PAIR COPULATION; POLYANDRY; REPRODUCTIVE STRATEGY; SPERM COMPETITION;

COLEOPTERA; DERMESTES MACULATUS; DERMESTIDAE; INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 0032827705     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1999.1172     Document Type: Article

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