Sex starved: Do resource-limited males ensure fertilization success at the expense of precopulatory mating success?

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 81, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 579-583

  Lewis, Zenobia ^a   Sasaki, Hiroko ^a   Miyatake, Takahisa ^a  

^a OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Indian meal moth; Lepidoptera; Plodia interpunctella; Sexual selection; Sperm competition; Sperm polymorphism; Trade off

Indexed keywords

FITNESS; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; MATING SUCCESS; MOTH; OPTIMIZATION; REPRODUCTIVE COST; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SEXUAL SELECTION; SPERM COMPETITION; TRADE-OFF;

LEPIDOPTERA; PLODIA INTERPUNCTELLA;

EID: 79851516693     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2010.12.001     Document Type: Article

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