Inbreeding depresses sperm competitiveness, but not fertilization or mating success in male Tribolium castaneum

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 277, Issue 1699, 2010, Pages 3483-3491

  Michalczyk, Łukasz ^a   Martin, Oliver Y ^a,b   Millard, Anna L ^a   Emerson, Brent C ^a   Gage, Matthew J G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Flour beetles; Inbreeding depression; Mating strategies; Polyandry; Sperm competition

Indexed keywords

BEETLE; FERTILIZATION (REPRODUCTION); FITNESS; HETEROZYGOSITY; INBREEDING DEPRESSION; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; MALE BEHAVIOR; MATING SUCCESS; POLYANDRY; POPULATION DECLINE; REPRODUCTIVE STRATEGY; SPERM COMPETITION;

COLEOPTERA; TRIBOLIUM (BEETLE); TRIBOLIUM CASTANEUM;

EID: 78149268576     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2010.0514     Document Type: Article

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