Mating success of resident versus non-resident males in a territorial butterfly

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 274, Issue 1618, 2007, Pages 1659-1665

  Bergman, Martin ^a   Gotthard, Karl ^a   Berger, David ^a   Olofsson, Martin ^a   Kemp, Darrell J ^b   Wiklund, Christer ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Butterfly vision; Contest success; Female choice; Lepidoptera; Mate choice; Mate locating behaviour

Indexed keywords

BUTTERFLY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTEST COMPETITION; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; FOREST FLOOR; INTRASPECIFIC COMPETITION; LIGHT EFFECT; MATE CHOICE; MATE LOCATION; MATING SUCCESS; RESIDENT POPULATION; TERRITORIALITY;

ARTICLE; BUTTERFLY; ENVIRONMENT; FOREST; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; LEPIDOPTERA; MALE GENITAL SYSTEM; MATE CHOICE; MATING; NONHUMAN; PARARGE AEGERIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; SEX ROLE; TERRITORIALITY;

LEPIDOPTERA; PARARGE AEGERIA;

EID: 34447300678     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2007.0311     Document Type: Article

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