Polyandry and female control: The red flour beetle Tribolium castaneum as a case study

Journal of Experimental Zoology Part B: Molecular and Developmental Evolution

Volumn 310, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 148-159

  Pai, Aditi ^a   Bernasconi, Giorgina ^b  

^a SPELMAN COLLEGE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; FEMALE; GENDER AND SEX; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; TRIBOLIUM;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; MALE; SEX DETERMINATION (GENETICS); SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; TRIBOLIUM;

ANIMALIA; COLEOPTERA; TRIBOLIUM (BEETLE); TRIBOLIUM CASTANEUM;

EID: 38949139039     PISSN: 15525007     EISSN: 15525015     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jez.b.21164     Document Type: Article

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