Sex, war, and disease: The role of parasite infection on weapon development and mating success in a horned beetle (Gnatocerus cornutus)

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Demuth, Jeffery P ^a   Naidu, Amrita ^a   Mydlarz, Laura D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MONOPHENOL MONOOXYGENASE; PROPHENOL OXIDASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BEETLE; BIOLOGICAL WARFARE; CESTODIASIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ACTIVITY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; IMMUNOSTIMULATION; INNATE IMMUNITY; INTRASPECIFIC COMPETITION; LIFE CYCLE STAGE; MATE CHOICE; MATING SUCCESS; MORPHOLOGICAL TRAIT; NONHUMAN; PARASITOSIS; POPULATION SIZE; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEX ROLE; WAR; ANIMAL; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; COPULATION; EVOLUTION; HORN; HYMENOLEPIASIS; HYMENOLEPIS DIMINUTA; IMMUNOLOGY; MALE; PARASITOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCTION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR;

COLEOPTERA; GNATHOCERUS CORNUTUS;

ANIMALS; BEETLES; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; COPULATION; HORNS; HYMENOLEPIASIS; HYMENOLEPIS DIMINUTA; IMMUNITY, CELLULAR; MALE; MATING PREFERENCE, ANIMAL; REPRODUCTION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL;

EID: 84855698970     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0028690     Document Type: Article

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