Mating experience weakens starvation tolerance in the seed bug Togo hemipterus (Heteroptera: Lygaeidae)

Physiological Entomology

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 128-133

  Himuro, Chihiro ^a,b   Fujisaki, Kenji ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Mating effort; Mating experience; Seminal fluid; Sexual difference; Starvation tolerance; Togo hemipterus

Indexed keywords

BODY FLUID; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; FECUNDITY; INSECT; LIFE HISTORY THEORY; PARENTAL INVESTMENT; REPRODUCTIVE EFFORT; REPRODUCTIVE STATUS; SEX-RELATED DIFFERENCE; STARVATION; SURVIVAL; TOLERANCE; TRADE-OFF;

EID: 80155199883     PISSN: 03076962     EISSN: 13653032     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3032.2009.00719.x     Document Type: Article

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