The effect of female arrivals on mate monopolization in the yellow dung fly

Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 65-70

  Blanckenhorn, Wolf U ^a   Frei, Jérôme ^a   Birrer, Maurus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Mating system; Operational sex ratio; Resource monopolization; Scathophaga stercoraria; Sexual selection

Indexed keywords

COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); FLY; INTRASEXUAL INTERACTION; MATING BEHAVIOR; MATING SUCCESS;

DIPTERA; SCATHOPHAGA; SCATHOPHAGA STERCORARIA; SCATHOPHAGIDAE;

EID: 0038198888     PISSN: 03405443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00265-003-0594-3     Document Type: Article

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