An integrative view of sexual selection in Tribolium flour beetles

Biological Reviews

Volumn 83, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 151-171

  Fedina, Tatyana Y ^a   Lewis, Sara M ^a  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cryptic female choice; Intersexual selection; Intrasexual selection; Paternity bias; Pheromones; Sperm competition; Sperm precedence

Indexed keywords

BEETLE; COLEOPTERA; COMPETITION; CONFLICT; COPULATION; EGG LAYING; FEMALE; FLOUR; GENITAL SYSTEM; GENOTYPE; LIFESPAN; MALE; MATING; NONHUMAN; PATERNITY; PROGENY; REPRODUCTION; REVIEW; SEXUAL SELECTION; SPERM; STARVATION; TRIBOLIUM;

ANIMALS; COPULATION; FEMALE; MALE; MATING PREFERENCE, ANIMAL; REPRODUCTION; SEX ATTRACTANTS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SPERMATOGONIA; TRIBOLIUM;

COLEOPTERA; TENEBRIO MOLITOR; TENEBRIONIDAE; TRIBOLIUM (BEETLE); TRIBOLIUM CASTANEUM;

EID: 42449102558     PISSN: 14647931     EISSN: 1469185X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-185X.2008.00037.x     Document Type: Review

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