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Effect of Male Body Size on Female Reproduction in Pyrrhocoris apterus (L.) (Heteroptera, Pyrrhocoridae)

SIMPLE SUMMARY: The benefits of copulation with large males were investigated in the firebug, Pyrrhocoris apterus (L.) (Heteroptera). Sexually immature adults were transferred from the field and kept as female-male pairs with different partner size ratios. We investigated the influence of male body...

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Autores principales: Honek, Alois, Martinkova, Zdenka
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9604140/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36292850
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/insects13100902