The strength of postcopulatory sexual selection within natural populations of field crickets

Behavioral Ecology

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1179-1185

  Simmons, Leigh W ^a   Beveridge, Maxine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

cryptic female choice; paternity skew; polyandry; sperm competition; Teleogryllus commodus; Teleogryllus oceanicus

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; COPULATION; CRICKET; GENETIC MARKER; GENOTYPE; MATE CHOICE; NUMERICAL MODEL; PATERNITY; POLYANDRY; POPULATION STRUCTURE; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; SEXUAL SELECTION; SPERM COMPETITION;

GRYLLIDAE; GRYLLINAE; TELEOGRYLLUS; TELEOGRYLLUS COMMODUS; TELEOGRYLLUS OCEANICUS;

EID: 78649353082     PISSN: 10452249     EISSN: 14657279     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/beheco/arq132     Document Type: Article

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