Maternal effects on male weaponry: Female dung beetles produce major sons with longer horns when they perceive higher population density

BMC Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Buzatto, Bruno A ^a   Tomkins, Joseph L ^a   Simmons, Leigh W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Male dimorphism; Maternal effects; Phenotypic plasticity; Polyphenism; Population density

Indexed keywords

BEETLE; BODY SIZE; CONSPECIFIC; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; FITNESS; GENE EXPRESSION; HORN; MATERNAL EFFECT; PARENT-OFFSPRING INTERACTION; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; POPULATION DENSITY; REPRODUCTIVE STRATEGY; SEXUAL DIMORPHISM; WEAPONRY;

COLEOPTERA; ONTHOPHAGUS TAURUS;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BEETLE; BODY SIZE; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT;

ANIMALS; BEETLES; BODY SIZE; FEMALE; MALE; POPULATION DENSITY; SEX CHARACTERISTICS;

EID: 84870225125     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712148     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-12-118     Document Type: Article

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