Protandry: The relationship between emergence time and male fitness in the pitcher-plant mosquito

Ecology

Volumn 83, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 607-611

  Holzapfel, Christina M ^a   Bradshaw, William E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

Author keywords

Emergence time and male fitness; Evolutionary stable strategy (ESS); Invasions; Life history evolution; Male fitness; Mosquitoes; Reproductive success; Seasonality; Sexual selection; Wyeomyia smithii

Indexed keywords

EMERGENCE; EVOLUTIONARILY STABLE STRATEGY; FITNESS; LIFE HISTORY THEORY; MALE; MOSQUITO; PROTANDRY; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; SEXUAL SELECTION;

ANIMALIA; CULICIDAE; DIPTERA; SARRACENIACEAE; WYEOMYIA; WYEOMYIA SMITHII;

EID: 0038225708     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/0012-9658(2002)083[0607:PTRBET]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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