Multiple mating in the traumatically inseminating Warehouse pirate bug, Xylocoris flavipes: Effects on fecundity and longevity

Biology Letters

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 706-709

  Backhouse, Amy ^a   Sait, Steven M ^a   Cameron, Tom C ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Pirate bugs; Sexual conflict; Traumatic insemination; Xylocoris flavipes

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; BIOCONTROL AGENT; COPULATION; FECUNDITY; INSECT; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; LONGEVITY; MULTIPLE MATING; REPRODUCTIVE COST; SEXUAL CONFLICT;

ANTHOCORIDAE; HEMIPTERA; XYLOCORIS FLAVIPES;

EID: 84866720014     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2012.0091     Document Type: Article

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