One tool, many uses: Precopulatory sexual selection on genital morphology in Aquarius remigis

Journal of Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 949-961

  Bertin, A ^a,b,c   Fairbairn, D J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b INSTITUT DES SCIENCES DE L EVOLUTION   (France)

^c CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Genitalia; Gerridae; Mating success; Selection gradients; Sexual conflict; Sexual selection

Indexed keywords

MATING SUCCESS; MORPHOLOGY; SEXUAL SELECTION;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COPULATION; GENETIC SELECTION; HETEROPTERA; HISTOLOGY; MALE; MALE GENITAL SYSTEM; MORPHOMETRICS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PHYSIOLOGY; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHTS AND MEASURES; CALIFORNIA; COPULATION; GENITALIA, MALE; HETEROPTERA; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; SELECTION (GENETICS);

AQUARIUS REMIGIS; GERRIDAE; HEXAPODA; INSECTA;

EID: 22144444928     PISSN: 1010061X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1420-9101.2005.00913.x     Document Type: Article

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