Ecology and Evolution of Mating Behavior in Freshwater Amphipods

Evolutionary Ecology of Social and Sexual Systems: Crustaceans as Model Organisms

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages

  Wellborn, Gary A ^a   Cothran, Rickey D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

Author keywords

Female choice; Mating systems; Natural selection; Predation; Sexual conflict; Sexual selection

Indexed keywords

EID: 84920752862     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195179927.003.0007     Document Type: Chapter

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