From kissing to belly stridulation: Comparative analysis reveals surprising diversity, rapid evolution, and much homoplasy in the mating behaviour of 27 species of sepsid flies (Diptera: Sepsidae)

Journal of Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 22, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 2146-2156

  Puniamoorthy, N ^a,b   Ismail, M R B ^a   Tan, D S H ^a   Meier, R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Comparative studies; Insects; Speciation

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONVERGENT EVOLUTION; DNA; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; FLY; MATING BEHAVIOR; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; PARSIMONY ANALYSIS; PHYLOGENETICS; PHYLOGENY; SEXUAL DIMORPHISM; VIDEOGRAPHY;

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COPULATION; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; FLY; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; COPULATION; DIPTERA; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; MALE; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

DIPTERA; HEXAPODA; SEPSIDAE;

EID: 70350424382     PISSN: 1010061X     EISSN: 14209101     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1420-9101.2009.01826.x     Document Type: Article

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