A selective trade-off for territoriality and non-territoriality in the polymorphic damselfly Mnais costalis

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 267, Issue 1447, 2000, Pages 969-975

  Plaistow, Stewart J ^a,b   Tsubaki, Yoshitaka ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE BOURGOGNE   (France)

Author keywords

Damselfly; Polymorphism; Selective trade off

Indexed keywords

FAT;

DAMSELFLY; POLYMORPHISM; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; TERRITORIALITY; TRADE-OFF;

AGING; ARTICLE; BODY SIZE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; FLIGHT MUSCLE; FLY; FORELIMB; MALE; MNAIS COSTALIS; NONHUMAN; NUTRITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

CALOPTERYGIDAE; MNAIS COSTALIS; ODONATA; ZYGOPTERA;

EID: 0034701914     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2000.1098     Document Type: Article

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