Genetic trade-off between abilities to avoid attack and to mate: A cost of tonic immobility

Biology Letters

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 18-20

  Nakayama, Satoshi ^a   Miyatake, Takahisa ^a  

^a OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Behavioural syndromes; Death feigning; Genetic trade offs; Locomotor activity; Tonic immobility

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ANTIPREDATOR DEFENSE; BEETLE; BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; FITNESS; GENETIC STRUCTURE; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; MATING SUCCESS; SURVIVAL; TRADE-OFF;

TRIBOLIUM CASTANEUM;

EID: 77449110256     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2009.0494     Document Type: Article

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