Alternative mating tactics in the yellow dung fly: Resolving mechanisms of small-male advantage off pasture

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 281, Issue 1774, 2013, Pages

  Gress, Brian E ^a   Waltzer, Ryan J ^a   Lüpold, Stefan ^a   Droge Young, Elizabeth M ^a   Manier, Mollie K ^a,b   Pitnick, Scott ^a  

^a SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Alternative mating tactics; Female preference; Male size; Scathophaga stercoraria; Sexual selection

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FLY; MATING BEHAVIOR; MATING SUCCESS; PASTURE; SEXUAL SELECTION; SPERM;

SCATHOPHAGA STERCORARIA;

EID: 84887508126     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2013.2164     Document Type: Article

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