Male water striders attract predators to intimidate females into copulation

Nature Communications

Volumn 1, Issue 5, 2010, Pages

  Han, Chang S ^a   Jablonski, Piotr G ^a,b  

^a Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^b POLISH ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ARTICLE; COEVOLUTION; COPULATION; FEMALE; GERRIS GRACILICORNIS; INSECT; MALE; MATING; NONHUMAN; PREDATION; PREDATOR; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL; HEMIPTERA; PHYSIOLOGY;

GERRIDAE; GERRIS GRACILICORNIS;

ANIMALS; COPULATION; FEMALE; HEMIPTERA; MALE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL;

EID: 84880284585     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms1051     Document Type: Article

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