Proximal traits and mechanisms for biasing paternity in the red flour beetle Tribolium castaneum (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae)

Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

Volumn 60, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 844-853

  Fedina, Tatyana Yu ^a   Lewis, Sara M ^a  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Condition dependent selection; Cryptic female choice; Sperm competition

Indexed keywords

BEETLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COPULATION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; MALE BEHAVIOR; MATING BEHAVIOR; PATERNITY; PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE; SEXUAL SELECTION; SPERMATOPHORE; STARVATION;

COLEOPTERA; TENEBRIONIDAE; TRIBOLIUM (BEETLE); TRIBOLIUM CASTANEUM;

EID: 33748656052     PISSN: 03405443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00265-006-0228-7     Document Type: Article

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