Love for sale and its fitness benefits: Nuptial gifts in the scorpionfly Panorpa vulgaris represent paternal investment

Behaviour

Volumn 143, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 825-837

  Engels, Sierk ^a   Sauer, Klaus Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Mating effort; Mecoptera; Nuptial feeding; Saliva secretion

Indexed keywords

INSECTA; MECOPTERA; PANORPA VULGARIS; PANORPIDAE;

EID: 33748920849     PISSN: 00057959     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/156853906778017962     Document Type: Review

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