Postmating sexual selection: The effects of male body size and recovery period on paternity and egg production rate in a water strider

Behavioral Ecology

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 358-365

  Arnqvist, Göran ^a   Danielsson, Ingela ^b  

^a UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Body size; Copulation duration; Cryptic female choice; Ejaculate size; Gerris lateralis; Recovery period; Reproductive effort; Sexual selection; Sperm competition; Sperm precedence; Water striders

Indexed keywords

BODY SIZE; EGG PRODUCTION; PATERNITY; SEXUAL SELECTION;

GERRIDAE; GERRIS LATERALIS; HEMIPTERA; HETEROPTERA; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 0032881516     PISSN: 10452249     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/beheco/10.4.358     Document Type: Article

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