Reversible switches between male-male and male-female mating behaviour by male damselflies

Biology Letters

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 268-270

  Van Gossum, H ^a   De Bruyn, L ^a,b   Stoks, R ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^b RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR NATURE AND FOREST INBO   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Colour polymorphism; Damselfly; Mate choice; Sex recognition; Sexual selection

Indexed keywords

COLOR; DAMSELFLY; MATE CHOICE; MATING BEHAVIOR; POLYMORPHISM; SEXUAL SELECTION;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; COLOR DISCRIMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLY; MALE; MATE CHOICE; MATING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL SELECTION;

ANIMALIA; ISCHNURA ELEGANS; ZYGOPTERA;

EID: 25444506242     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2005.0315     Document Type: Article

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