Sperm competition, cryptic female choice and prolonged mating in the Eucalyptus Snout-Beetle, Gonipterus scutellatus (Coleoptera, Curculionidae)

Etologia

Volumn , Issue 6, 1998, Pages 33-40

  Carbone, Serena Santolamazza ^a   Rivera, Adolfo Cordero ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIGO   (Spain)

Author keywords

Coleoptera; Cryptic female choice; Curculionidae; Genitalia; Prolonged copulation; Sperm competition

Indexed keywords

EID: 0142212437     PISSN: 11303204     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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