Sperm transfer and paternity in the scorpionfly Panorpa cognata: Large variance in traits favoured by post-copulatory episodes of sexual selection

Evolutionary Ecology

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 801-816

  Engqvist, Leif ^a   Dekomien, Gabriele ^b   Lippmann, Tanja ^b   Epplen, Jörg T ^b   Sauer, Klaus P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Copulation duration; Cryptic female choice; Fair raffle; Mecoptera; Microsatellites; Sperm competition; Sperm precedence

Indexed keywords

COPULATION; FLY; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; PATERNITY; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; SEXUAL SELECTION; SPERM COMPETITION;

MECOPTERA; PANORPA COGNATA;

EID: 34249823245     PISSN: 02697653     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10682-006-9152-6     Document Type: Article

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