Sexual selection in honey bees: Colony variation and the importance of size in male mating success

Behavioral Ecology

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 520-525

  Couvillon, Margaret J ^a,b   Hughes, William O H ^a,c   Perez Sato, Juan A ^a,d   Martin, Stephen J ^a   Roy, Gabrielle G F ^a   Ratnieks, Francis L W ^a,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b University of Arizona   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^d Congregación Manuel Leon Amatlan de Los Reyes Cordoba ^*  (Mexico)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Apis mellifera; Male competition; Male size; Paternity; Polyandry

Indexed keywords

COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; FITNESS; GENOTYPE; HONEYBEE; INTRASPECIFIC COMPETITION; MATING SUCCESS; PATERNITY; POLYANDRY; SEXUAL SELECTION;

ANIMALIA; APIS MELLIFERA; HEXAPODA;

EID: 77951105493     PISSN: 10452249     EISSN: 14657279     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/beheco/arq016     Document Type: Article

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