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Female choice increases offspring fitness in an arctiid moth (Utetheisa ornatrix)

In Utetheisa ornatrix (Lepidoptera, Arctiidae), the female mates preferentially with larger males. Having a larger father results in the eggs being more richly endowed with defensive pyrrolizidine alkaloid (which the female receives from the male with the sperm package, in quantity proportional to t...

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Huvudupphovsmän: Iyengar, Vikram K., Eisner, Thomas
Materialtyp: Artigo
Språk:Inglês
Publicerad: The National Academy of Sciences 1999
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Länkar:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC24764/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10611329
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