Linking nutrition and sexual selection across life stages in a model butterfly system

Functional Ecology

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 145-154

  Tigreros, Natasha ^a  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Development time; Latent effects; Nitrogen; Nutritional constraints; Pieris rapae; Postcopulatory; Precopulatory; Pupal size

Indexed keywords

ADULT; BODY SIZE; BUTTERFLY; COPULATION; FITNESS; LARVA; LIFE CYCLE; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; MATING SUCCESS; METAMORPHOSIS; NITROGEN; NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY; NUTRITION; PROTEIN; PUPA; SEXUAL SELECTION;

BRASSICA OLERACEA VAR. CAPITATA; PIERIS BRASSICAE; PIERIS RAPAE;

EID: 84873094059     PISSN: 02698463     EISSN: 13652435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1365-2435.12006     Document Type: Article

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