Wild yellow dung fly females may not select sperm based on dung pat microclimate but could nevertheless benefit from polyandry

Evolutionary Ecology

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 715-731

  Demont, Marco ^a,b   Martin, Oliver Y ^b   Bussière, Luc F ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF STIRLING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cryptic female choice; Postcopulatory sexual selection; Scathophaga; Scatophaga; Sperm competition

Indexed keywords

COPULATION; CRYPSIS; FLY; MICROCLIMATE; OVIPOSITION; PARENT-OFFSPRING INTERACTION; PATERNITY; POLYANDRY; SEXUAL SELECTION; SPERM COMPETITION; WILD POPULATION;

HEXAPODA; SCATHOPHAGA; SCATHOPHAGA STERCORARIA;

EID: 84859559984     PISSN: 02697653     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10682-011-9519-1     Document Type: Article

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