Males do not prolong copulation in response to competitor males in the polyandrous fly Drosophila bifasciata

Physiological Entomology

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 227-232

  Lizé, Anne ^a   Price, Thomas A R ^a   Marcello, Marco ^a   Smaller, Eve A ^a   Lewis, Zenobia ^a   Hurst, Gregory D D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Copulation duration; Female receptivity; Male rivalry; Mating plug; Polyandry; Social environment; Sperm; Sperm competition; Sperm plug

Indexed keywords

COPULATION; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; FLY; MALE BEHAVIOR; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; POLYANDRY; REPRODUCTIVE STRATEGY; SPERM COMPETITION;

DIPTERA; DROSOPHILA BIFASCIATA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILIDAE;

EID: 84865297460     PISSN: 03076962     EISSN: 13653032     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3032.2012.00836.x     Document Type: Article

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