Field mating rate of female meadow grasshoppers, Chorthippus parallelus, estimated from sperm counts

Ecological Entomology

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 637-642

  Reinhardt, Klaus ^a,b   Köhler, Günter ^a   Webb, Steve ^b   Childs, Dylan ^b  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Acrididae; Age estimation; Ejaculate size; Polyandry

Indexed keywords

ESTIMATION METHOD; GRASSHOPPER; LABORATORY METHOD; LIFE HISTORY; MATING BEHAVIOR; SPERM;

ACRIDIDAE; CHORTHIPPUS PARALLELUS; HEXAPODA;

EID: 36448974177     PISSN: 03076946     EISSN: 13652311     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2311.2007.00923.x     Document Type: Article

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