Summary: Extreme cost of male riding behaviour for juvenile females of the Zeus bug
There´sa M. Jones a,*, Mark A. Elgar a
, Go¨ran Arnqvist b,1
a
Department of Zoology, University of Melbourne
b
Animal Ecology, Department of Ecology and Evolution, University of Uppsala
a r t i c l e i n f o
Article history:
Received 27 May 2009
Initial acceptance 24 September 2009
Final acceptance 13 October 2009
Available online 7 November 2009
MS. number: 09-00346
Keywords:
juvenile female
mate guarding
Phoreticovelia disparata
precopulatory
sexual conflict

Source: Arnqvist, Göran - Department of Animal Ecology, Uppsala Universitet
Sorenson, Michael - Department of Biology, Boston University

Collections: Environmental Sciences and Ecology