Why do so many flour beetle copulations fail?

Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata

Volumn 146, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 199-206

  Tyler, Frances ^a   Tregenza, Tom ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Coleoptera; Cryptic female choice; Inter copulation interval; Mate choice; Post copulatory inbreeding avoidance; Quiescence; Sperm transfer; Tenebrionidae; Tribolium castaneum

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; AVOIDANCE REACTION; BEETLE; COPULATION; FERTILIZATION (REPRODUCTION); HOME RANGE; INBREEDING; MATE CHOICE; PEST SPECIES; RELATEDNESS; REPRODUCTION; REPRODUCTIVE COST; REPRODUCTIVE STATUS; REPRODUCTIVE STRATEGY; SPERM; SPERMATOPHORE;

COLEOPTERA; TENEBRIONIDAE; TRIBOLIUM CASTANEUM;

EID: 84872383060     PISSN: 00138703     EISSN: 15707458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1570-7458.2012.01292.x     Document Type: Article

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