Resource defense and juvenile hormone: The "challenge hypothesis" extended to insects

Hormones and Behavior

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 276-281

  Scott, Michelle Pellissier ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

Author keywords

Aggression; Breeding resource; Burying beetles; Challenge hypothesis; Competition; Juvenile hormone; Nicrophorus orbicollis; Nicrophorus pustulatus; Parental care; Reproductive strategy

Indexed keywords

JUVENILE HORMONE;

AGGRESSION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CARCASS; COMPETITION; DEFENSIVE BEHAVIOR; HEMOLYMPH; HORMONE ACTION; HYPOTHESIS; INVERTEBRATE; MATING; NONHUMAN; PARENTAL BEHAVIOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL STATUS;

AGGRESSION; ANIMALS; BEETLES; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; FEMALE; HEMOLYMPH; JUVENILE HORMONES; MALE; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; OVIPOSITION; PATERNAL BEHAVIOR; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; REPRODUCTION; SEX FACTORS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 32544440423     PISSN: 0018506X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yhbeh.2005.07.003     Document Type: Article

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