Sex ratio schedules in a dynamic game: The effect of competitive asymmetry by male emergence order

Behavioral Ecology

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1106-1115

  Abe, Jun ^a,b,c   Kamimura, Yoshitaka ^d   Shimada, Masakazu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b GIFU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^d HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Dynamic game model; Lethal male combat; Local mate competition; Melittobia; Parasitoid wasps; Sex allocation

Indexed keywords

ASYMMETRIC COMPETITION; BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); EMERGENCE; GAME THEORY; MATING SUCCESS; MORTALITY; PARASITOID; SEX ALLOCATION; SEX RATIO; WASP;

MELITTOBIA;

EID: 35848958578     PISSN: 10452249     EISSN: 14657279     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/beheco/arm083     Document Type: Article

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