Promiscuity and elongated sperm storage organs work cooperatively as a cryptic female choice mechanism in an earwig

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 85, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 377-383

  Kamimura, Yoshitaka ^a  

^a TOKYO METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cryptic female choice; Earwig; Euborellia plebeja; Indirect mating benefit; Promiscuity; Sperm competition; Sperm storage organ; Spermatheca

Indexed keywords

BODY SIZE; COPULATION; CRYPSIS; FEMALE BEHAVIOR; INSECT; MATE CHOICE; MORPHOLOGY; NUMERICAL MODEL; PATERNITY; REPRODUCTIVE COST; SECONDARY SEXUAL CHARACTERISTICS; SPERM; SPERM COMPETITION; STORAGE;

DERMAPTERA; EUBORELLIA PLEBEJA;

EID: 84873089582     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2012.11.010     Document Type: Article

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