Sexual conflict over nuptial gifts in insects

Annual Review of Entomology

Volumn 53, Issue , 2008, Pages 83-101

  Gwynne, Darryl T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Allohormones; Courtship feeding; Mating rates; Polyandry

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; INSECT; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR;

ANIMALS; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; INSECTS; MALE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL;

ARTHROPODA; HEXAPODA;

EID: 40349106489     PISSN: 00664170     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.ento.53.103106.093423     Document Type: Review

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