Experimental evolution exposes female and male responses to sexual selection and conflict in tribolium castaneum

Evolution

Volumn 65, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 713-724

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Cost of mating; Flour beetles; Male mating behavior; Mating strategies; Polyandry; Sperm competition

Indexed keywords

BEETLE; BIOASSAY; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; FITNESS; MORTALITY; MULTIPLE MATING; REPRODUCTIVE PRODUCTIVITY; REPRODUCTIVE STRATEGY; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; SEX RATIO; SEXUAL SELECTION; SPERM COMPETITION;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; GENETICS; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; SEX RATIO; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; TRIBOLIUM;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; MALE; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SEX RATIO; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; TRIBOLIUM;

COLEOPTERA; TRIBOLIUM CASTANEUM;

EID: 79952225809     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: 15585646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2010.01174.x     Document Type: Article

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