Mating with dead conspecifics in an invasive ladybird is affected by male sexual fasting and time since the female’s death

High promiscuity and low mating partner choosiness in insects can sometimes result in a deviated mating behaviour such as mating with already dead individuals. In this study we investigated the occurrence of necrophilic behaviour in males of the invasive ladybird Harmonia axyridis using two laborato...

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الحاوية / القاعدة:Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
المؤلفون الرئيسيون: Michal Řeřicha, Santiago Montoya-Molina, Filip Harabiš, Michal Knapp
التنسيق: مقال
اللغة:الإنجليزية
منشور في: Frontiers Media S.A. 2023-10-01
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الوصول للمادة أونلاين:https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fevo.2023.1225998/full