Females benefit from multiple mating but not multiple mates in the burying beetle Nicrophorus vespilloides

Journal of Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 22, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 1961-1966

  House, C M ^a   Walling, C A ^a   Stamper, C E ^a   Moore, A J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Burying beetles; Multiple mating; Polyandry; Sexual selection

Indexed keywords

BEETLE; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; FITNESS; POLYANDRY; REPRODUCTIVE COST; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; SEXUAL SELECTION;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BEETLE; FEMALE; GENETIC SELECTION; MALE; MATE CHOICE; OVIPARITY;

ANIMALS; BEETLES; FEMALE; MALE; MATING PREFERENCE, ANIMAL; OVIPARITY; SELECTION, GENETIC;

COLEOPTERA; NICROPHORUS VESPILLOIDES;

EID: 69249163902     PISSN: 1010061X     EISSN: 14209101     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1420-9101.2009.01800.x     Document Type: Article

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