Causes and consequences of male-male courtship in fruit flies

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 80, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 913-919

  Dukas, Reuven ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Courtship; Drosophila melanogaster; Fruit fly; Homosexual behaviour; Learning

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; COURTSHIP; FLY; INTRASEXUAL INTERACTION; LEARNING; PHENOTYPE; PHEROMONE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SPERM COMPETITION;

ANIMALIA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER;

EID: 77957814557     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2010.08.017     Document Type: Article

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