Nutritional status affects copula duration in the mediterranean fruit fly, ceratitis capitata (insecta tephritidae)

Ethology Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 61-70

  Field, S A ^a   Yuval, B ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

Copula duration; Mediterranean fruit fly; Nutrition; Sexual conflict; Tephritidae

Indexed keywords

FLY; MATE CHOICE; MATING BEHAVIOR; NUTRITIONAL STATUS;

CERATITIS CAPITATA; DIPTERA; TEPHRITIDAE;

EID: 0033103789     PISSN: 03949370     EISSN: 18287131     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08927014.1999.9522842     Document Type: Article

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