Costly mating delays drive female ornamentation in a capital breeder

Abstract How fecundity might be traded off with mate attraction and other aspects of reproduction in females remains poorly understood. We investigated these allocation trade‐offs using the common glowworm (Lampyris noctiluca), a lampyrid beetle, in which flightless, sedentary females only use resou...

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Main Authors: Juhani Hopkins, Topi K. Lehtonen, Gautier Baudry, Arja Kaitala
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2021-07-01
Series:Ecology and Evolution
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.7719