Fitness benefits of diverse offspring in pygmy grasshoppers

Evolutionary Ecology Research

Volumn 9, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 1305-1318

  Forsman, Anders ^a   Ahnesjö, Jonas ^a   Caesar, Sofia ^a  

^a LINNAEUS UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Colour polymorphism; Offspring diversification; Polyandry; Selective free rider

Indexed keywords

TETRIGIDAE; TETRIX SUBULATA; TETRIX UNDULATA;

EID: 38949144014     PISSN: 15220613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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