Crowding, sex ratio and horn evolution in a South African beetle community

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 275, Issue 1632, 2008, Pages 315-321

  Pomfret, Joanne C ^a   Knell, Robert J ^a  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Mean crowding; Onthophagini; Operational sex ratio; Population density; Sexual selection; Sexual weaponry

Indexed keywords

BEETLE; BIOLOGICAL WEAPON; CONSPECIFIC; EVOLUTION; HORN; PHYLOGENETICS; POPULATION DENSITY; REPRODUCTIVE STRATEGY; SCRAMBLE COMPETITION; SEX RATIO; SEXUAL SELECTION; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEETLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROWDING; FEMALE; HORN; MALE; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION DENSITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEX RATIO; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

ANIMALIA; COLEOPTERA;

EID: 37349023547     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2007.1498     Document Type: Article

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