Dietary choice for a balanced nutrient intake increases the mean and reduces the variance in the reproductive performance of male and female cockroaches

Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 6, Issue 14, 2016, Pages 4711-4730

  Bunning, Harriet ^a   Bassett, Lee ^a   Clowser, Christina ^a   Rapkin, James ^a   Jensen, Kim ^a,b   House, Clarissa M ^a   Archer, Catharine R ^a,c   Hunt, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^b NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR DEMOGRAPHIC RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Geometric framework of nutrition; optimal foraging; pheromones; sexual selection

Indexed keywords

EID: 84976577288     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20457758     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ece3.2243     Document Type: Article

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