Do female fruit flies (Drosophila serrata) copy the mate choice of others?

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 82, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 78-80

  Auld, Heather L ^a   Punzalan, David ^a   Godin, Jean Guy J ^b   Rundle, Howard D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Drosophila serrata; Mate preferences; Mate choice copying; Sexual selection; Social learning

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FEMALE BEHAVIOR; FLY; LEARNING; MATE CHOICE; MATING SUCCESS; PREFERENCE BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA SERRATA; FEMALE; MATE CHOICE; MATING SUCCESS; NONHUMAN; SEXUAL SELECTION; SOCIAL LEARNING;

ANIMALS; DROSOPHILA; FEMALE; IMITATIVE BEHAVIOR; MALE; MATING PREFERENCE, ANIMAL; RANDOM ALLOCATION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

DROSOPHILA SERRATA; HEXAPODA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 67650114604     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2009.03.004     Document Type: Article

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