Larger ejaculate volumes are associated with a lower degree of polyandry across bushcricket taxa

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 273, Issue 1599, 2006, Pages 2387-2394

  Vahed, Karim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DERBY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Antagonistic coevolution; Polyandry; Receptivity; Sexual conflict; Spermatodose; Spermatophylax

Indexed keywords

BODY MASS; GRASSHOPPER; INTERSPECIFIC VARIATION; MATING BEHAVIOR; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; PHYLOGENY; POLYANDRY; SPERMATOPHORE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; LIFESPAN; MALE; MATING; NONHUMAN; ORTHOPTERA; PHYLOGENY; POLYANDRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPERM; SPERMATOZOON COUNT;

HEXAPODA; TETTIGONIIDAE;

EID: 33748649656     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2006.3593     Document Type: Article

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