Female butterflies prefer males bearing bright iridescent ornamentation

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 274, Issue 1613, 2007, Pages 1043-1047

  Kemp, Darrell J ^a  

^a JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Female mate choice; Hypolimnas; Lepidoptera; Ornamentation; Sexual selection; Ultraviolet

Indexed keywords

BUTTERFLY; COLOR MORPH; CONSPECIFIC; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; MATE CHOICE; MATE RECOGNITION; ORNAMENTATION; SEX DETERMINATION; SEXUAL DIMORPHISM; SEXUAL SELECTION; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION; WING MORPHOLOGY;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BUTTERFLY; COLOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPULATION; FEMALE; FORELIMB; HYPOLIMNAS BOLINA; MALE; MATE CHOICE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEXUAL SELECTION;

ANIMALIA; HYPOLIMNAS; HYPOLIMNAS BOLINA; LEPIDOPTERA; PAPILIONOIDEA;

ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ANIMALS; BUTTERFLIES; COLOR; FEMALE; MALE; MATING PREFERENCE, ANIMAL; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS;

EID: 34447295885     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2006.0043     Document Type: Article

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