Sexual conflict in the wild: Elevated mating rate reduces female lifetime reproductive success

American Naturalist

Volumn 165, Issue SUPPL., 2005, Pages

  Maklakov, Alexei A ^a,b   Bilde, Trine ^c   Lubin, Yael ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Direct selection; Evolution of mating systems; Mating rate; Polyandry; Stegodyphus lineatus

Indexed keywords

EVOLUTION; POLYANDRY; REPRODUCTIVE STRATEGY; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; SEXUAL CONFLICT; SPIDER;

ANIMAL; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONFLICT; FEMALE; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCTION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SPIDER;

ANIMALS; CONFLICT (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; MALE; REPRODUCTION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SPIDERS;

ARANEAE; STEGODYPHUS LINEATUS;

EID: 17644403523     PISSN: 00030147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/429351     Document Type: Conference Paper

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