Fertility and paternity in the Eucalyptus snout-beetle Gonipterus scutellatus: Females might benefit from sperm mixing

Ethology Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 283-294

  Santolamazza Carbone, S ^a   Cordero Rivera, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIGO   (Spain)

Author keywords

Curculionidae; Fecundity; Multiple matings; P2; RAPD; Sperm competition

Indexed keywords

BEETLE; FECUNDITY; MULTIPLE MATING; PATERNITY; SPERM COMPETITION;

COLEOPTERA; CURCULIONIDAE; EUCALYPTUS; GONIPTERUS; GONIPTERUS SCUTELLATUS; INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 0142216296     PISSN: 03949370     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08927014.2003.9522673     Document Type: Article

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