Testing multiple hypotheses for the maintenance of male homosexual copulatory behaviour in flour beetles

Journal of Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 60-70

  Levan, K E ^a,b   Fedina, T Y ^a,c   Lewis, S M ^a  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Dominance; Indirect sperm transfer; Mating behaviour; Sperm ageing; Sperm dumping

Indexed keywords

BEETLE; COPULATION; HOMOSEXUALITY; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; MALE BEHAVIOR; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; SPERM;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HOMOSEXUALITY; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL DOMINANCE; TRIBOLIUM;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; HOMOSEXUALITY, MALE; MALE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SOCIAL DOMINANCE; TRIBOLIUM;

ANIMALIA; COLEOPTERA; TRIBOLIUM (BEETLE); TRIBOLIUM CASTANEUM;

EID: 58149098226     PISSN: 1010061X     EISSN: 14209101     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1420-9101.2008.01616.x     Document Type: Article

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