Courtship strategies of male insects: when is learning advantageous?

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 72, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1395-1404

  Dukas, Reuven ^a   Clark, Colin W ^b   Abbott, Kevin ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; COURTSHIP; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FLY; LEARNING; MALE; MATING SUCCESS;

HEXAPODA; INSECTA;

EID: 33751188291     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2006.05.002     Document Type: Article

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