Sexual conflict over the duration of copulation in Drosophila montana: Why is longer better?

BMC Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Mazzi, Dominique ^a,b   Kesäniemi, Jenni ^a   Hoikkala, Anneli ^a   Klappert, Kirsten ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ   (Finland)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^d SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF AQUATIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPULATION; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA MONTANA; FEMALE; MALE; MATING; NONHUMAN; PATERNITY TEST; PERSUASIVE COMMUNICATION; PROGENY; SEX RATIO; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SPERM COMPETITION; THEORETICAL MODEL; ANIMAL; EVOLUTION; GENETIC SELECTION; PHYSIOLOGY; SPERMATOZOON;

DROSOPHILA MONTANA;

ANIMALS; COPULATION; DROSOPHILA; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; MALE; SELECTION (GENETICS); SEX RATIO; SPERMATOZOA;

EID: 67649851012     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712148     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-9-132     Document Type: Article

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