What affects mating rate? Polyandry is higher in the directly developing generation of the butterfly Pieris napi

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 80, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 413-418

  Larsdotter Mellström, Helena ^a   Wiklund, Christer ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Diapause; Evolution; Green veined white butterfly; Life history; Mating rate; Monandry; Phenotypic plasticity; Pieris napi; Polyandry; Voltinism

Indexed keywords

BUTTERFLY; COMPENSATION; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY; GENERATION TIME; HIBERNATION; LIFE HISTORY; MATING BEHAVIOR; NUPTIAL GIFT; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; POLYANDRY; PUPA; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; VOLTINISM;

HEXAPODA; PIERIS BRASSICAE; PIERIS NAPI;

EID: 77955568641     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2010.05.025     Document Type: Article

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