Age, Experience and Sex - Do Female Bulb Mites Prefer Young Mating Partners?

Ethology

Volumn 118, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 235-242

  Prokop, Zofia M ^a   Jarzebowska, Magdalena ^a   Skrzynecka, Anna M ^a   Herdegen, Magdalena ^a  

^a JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE STRUCTURE; AGING; FERTILITY; FITNESS; MATING SUCCESS; MITE; POLYANDRY; REPRODUCTIVE STRATEGY;

ACARI; RHIZOGLYPHUS ROBINI;

EID: 84857063999     PISSN: 01791613     EISSN: 14390310     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0310.2011.02006.x     Document Type: Article

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