Females of the grasshopper Chorthippus parallelus (Zett.) do not remate for fresh sperm

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 266, Issue 1432, 1999, Pages 2003-2009

  Reinhardt, Klaus ^a   Köhler, Günter ^a   Schumacher, Jens ^a  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

Multiple mating; Sex ratio; Sexual selection; Sperm age; Sperm use

Indexed keywords

FEMALE BEHAVIOR; FITNESS; MATING BEHAVIOR; MULTIPLE MATING; SPERM;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; GRASSHOPPER; MALE; MATING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX RATIO; SPERM;

ACRIDIDAE; CHORTHIPPUS PARALLELUS; INVERTEBRATA; ORTHOPTERA;

EID: 0033533783     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.1999.0878     Document Type: Article

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