Sexual cooperation and conflict in butterflies: A male-transferred anti-aphrodisiac reduces harassment of recently mated females

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 267, Issue 1450, 2000, Pages 1271-1275

  Andersson, Johan ^a,b   Borg Karlson, Anna Karin ^a   Wiklund, Christer ^b  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Methyl salicylate; Pheromones; Pieris napi; Sexual selection; Solid phase micro extraction (SPME)

Indexed keywords

APHRODISIAC AGENT; SALICYLIC ACID METHYL ESTER;

BUTTERFLY; CHEMICAL ECOLOGY; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; MATING BEHAVIOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BUTTERFLY; CONFLICT; CONTROLLED STUDY; COOPERATION; FEMALE; FERTILITY; ISOTOPE LABELING; LONGEVITY; MALE; MATING TYPE; NONHUMAN; NUTRIENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEXUAL HARASSMENT; SYNTHESIS;

ANIMALIA; LEPIDOPTERA; PAPILIONOIDEA; PIERIDAE; PIERIS NAPI;

EID: 0034617229     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2000.1138     Document Type: Article

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