Harm to females increases with male body size in Drosophila melanogaster

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 269, Issue 1502, 2002, Pages 1821-1828

  Pitnick, Scott ^a   García González, Francisco ^a  

^a SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Body size; Fecundity; Longevity; Remating; Sexual conflict; Sexual selection

Indexed keywords

BODY SIZE; FECUNDITY; FITNESS; LONGEVITY; SEXUAL CONFLICT; SEXUAL SELECTION;

ARTICLE; BODY SIZE; COPULATION; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EGG PRODUCTION; FEMALE; FEMALE FERTILITY; LIFESPAN; LONGEVITY; MALE; MATING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

DIPTERA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILIDAE; INVERTEBRATA; MELANOGASTER;

EID: 41049117373     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2002.2090     Document Type: Article

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