Phenotypic assortment mediates the effect of social selection in a wild beetle population

Evolution

Volumn 65, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 2771-2781

  Formica, Vincent A ^a,b   Mcglothlin, Joel W ^a   Wood, Corlett W ^a,b   Augat, Malcolm E ^a,b   Butterfield, Rebecca E ^c   Barnard, Mollie E ^b   Brodie Iii, Edmund D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^b SWARTHMORE COLLEGE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Bolitotherus cornutus; Contextual analysis; Interacting phenotypes; Multilevel selection; Sexual selection; Social evolution

Indexed keywords

BEETLE; BODY SIZE; CONSPECIFIC; COPULATION; FITNESS; GROUP SELECTION; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; SEXUAL SELECTION; WILD POPULATION;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BEETLE; BODY SIZE; FEMALE; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETICS; HISTOLOGY; MALE; PHENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGY; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ANIMALS; BEETLES; BODY SIZE; FEMALE; MALE; PHENOTYPE; SELECTION, GENETIC; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

BOLITOTHERUS CORNUTUS; COLEOPTERA; FUNGI;

EID: 80053448969     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: 15585646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2011.01340.x     Document Type: Article

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