Condition-based alternative reproductive tactics in the wool-carder bee, anthidium manicatum

Ethology Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 71-75

  Starks, P T ^a   Reeve, H K ^a  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

Anthidium manicatum; Behavioral plasticity; Reproductive tactics; Resource defense polygyny

Indexed keywords

BODY SIZE; COPULATION; MATING BEHAVIOR; REPRODUCTIVE STRATEGY;

ANTHIDIUM MANICATUM; HYMENOPTERA; MEGACHILIDAE;

EID: 0033103417     PISSN: 03949370     EISSN: 18287131     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08927014.1999.9522843     Document Type: Article

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