Mating system and sex ratios of a pollinating fig wasp with dispersing males

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 269, Issue 1507, 2002, Pages 2317-2323

  Greeff, Jaco M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Agaonidae; Dispersal; Local mate competition; Partial local mating; Sex allocation

Indexed keywords

COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); DISPERSAL; INTRASEXUAL INTERACTION; REPRODUCTIVE STRATEGY; SEX RATIO;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; COMPETITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FITNESS; INBREEDING; INHERITANCE; MATE CHOICE; MATING SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX ALLOCATION; SEX RATIO; SIBLING; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; VARIANCE; WASP;

AGAONIDAE; ANIMALIA; HYMENOPTERA; VESPIDAE;

EID: 53149090916     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2002.2160     Document Type: Article

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