Unpredictable offspring survivorship in the damselfly, megaloprepus coerulatus, shapes parental behavior, constrains sexual selection, and challenges traditional fitness estimates

Evolution

Volumn 55, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 762-772

  Fincke, Ola M ^a   Hadrys, Heike ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^b GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Fitness; Hatching asynchrony; Larval survivorship; Odonata; Selection

Indexed keywords

DAMSELFLY; FITNESS; SEXUAL SELECTION; SURVIVORSHIP;

ODONATA;

EID: 0035005780     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0014-3820.2001.tb00812.x     Document Type: Article

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