Female Fertilization: Effects of Sex-Specific Density and Sex Ratio Determined Experimentally for Colorado Potato Beetles and Drosophila Fruit Flies

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2013, Pages

  Vahl, Wouter K ^a   Boiteau, Gilles ^c   de Heij, Maaike E ^a   MacKinley, Pamela D ^c   Kokko, Hanna ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c AGRICULTURE AND AGRI FOOD CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; COLORADO POTATO BEETLE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA SIMULANS; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; MALE; MATING SUCCESS; NONHUMAN; ORGANISMAL INTERACTION; POPULATION DENSITY; POTATO; PREDICTION; RESPONSE SURFACE METHOD; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEX RATIO; SPECIES COMPARISON;

ANIMALS; BEETLES; COLORADO; DROSOPHILA; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SEX RATIO; SOLANUM TUBEROSUM;

LEPTINOTARSA DECEMLINEATA; MELANOGASTER; SEPIA; SOLANUM TUBEROSUM;

EID: 84876084211     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0060381     Document Type: Article

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