Pre- and Post-Copulatory Mate Selection Mechanisms in an African Dung Beetle, Circellium bacchus (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae)
Females of most taxa mate selectively. Mate selection may be: (1) precopulatory,involving active female choice and male-male competition, and (2) postcopulatory,with cryptic female choice and sperm competition. Because female dungbeetles (Circellium bacchus) invest heavily in parental care by ball-r...
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Springer
2008
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| Online Access: | http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10905-007-9106-z http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/44395 |