The costs of avoiding matings in the dung fly Sepsis cynipsea

Behavioral Ecology

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 359-365

  Mühlhäuser, Claudia ^a   Blanckenhorn, Wolf U ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Female choice; Female reluctance; Mating behavior; Mating costs; Predation; Sexual conflict; Wing injury

Indexed keywords

AVOIDANCE REACTION; INJURY; PREDATION RISK; REPRODUCTIVE BEHAVIOR; REPRODUCTIVE COST; SEXUAL CONFLICT;

DIPTERA; SCATHOPHAGIDAE; SEPSIDAE; SEPSIS CYNIPSEA;

EID: 0036558624     PISSN: 10452249     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/beheco/13.3.359     Document Type: Article

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