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Heritability of body mass, a sexually selected trait, in an arctiid moth (Utetheisa ornatrix)

In the moth Utetheisa ornatrix (Lepidoptera: Arctiidae), females mate preferentially with larger males. Large body mass is advantageous to both sexes: large males sire more young than small males, and large females have higher fecundity than small females. Here we report that body mass is heritable...

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Autors principals: Iyengar, Vikram K., Eisner, Thomas
Format: Artigo
Idioma:Inglês
Publicat: The National Academy of Sciences 1999
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Accés en línia:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC17751/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10430914
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