Mating with stressed males increases the fitness of ant queens

PLoS ONE

Volumn 3, Issue 7, 2008, Pages

  Schrempf, Alexandra ^a   Heinze, Jürgen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPULATION; FEMALE; FITNESS; LIFESPAN; MATE CHOICE; MATING SUCCESS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; ORGANISM COLONY; QUEEN (INSECT); REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; STRESS; ANIMAL; ENVIRONMENT; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT;

CARDIOCONDYLA OBSCURIOR; HEXAPODA;

ANIMALS; ANTS; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; MALE; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL;

EID: 49749121790     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0002592     Document Type: Article

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