Sexual conflict over copula timing: A mathematical model and a test in the yellow dung fly

Behavioral Ecology

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 958-966

  Blanckenhorn, Wolf U ^a   Arthur, Benjamin I ^a   Meile, Patricia ^a   Ward, Paul I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Body size; Copulation duration; Food limitation; Scathophaga stercoraria; Scatophaga; Sexual conflict; Sexual selection

Indexed keywords

AGE; BODY SIZE; COPULATION; FLY; MATE CHOICE; NUMERICAL MODEL; PERSISTENCE; SEXUAL CONFLICT; SEXUAL MATURITY; TEMPORAL PERIOD; TESTING METHOD;

ANIMALIA; DIPTERA; SCATHOPHAGA; SCATHOPHAGA STERCORARIA; SCATHOPHAGIDAE;

EID: 34548423146     PISSN: 10452249     EISSN: 14657279     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/beheco/arm067     Document Type: Article

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