Lifetime mating success in a marginal population of a damselfly, Coenagrion mercuriale
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Activity patterns and lifetime mating success (LMS) in a marginal British population of Coenagrion mericulae, a rare, scrambling damselfly are examined as opposed to that in a core population if a similarly sized scrambling congeneric. Variation in lifetime reproductive success in marginal populations of scrambling insects may be governed primarily by stochastic processes, limiting the role of selection since their activity rates are constrained by climate.
Publication Name: Animal Behaviour
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0003-3472
Year: 2005
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Mating opportunities and mating costs are reduced in androchrome female damselflies, Ischnura elegans (Odonata)
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Adaptive and non-adaptive hypotheses for the maintenance of female color morphs in the damselfly, Ischnura elegans, were tested in a sample of females near Rome, Italy. Examination revealed that female phenotypes such as androchromes and gynochromes have different mating frequency but similar survivorship. Androchromes were larger in size than gynochromes. They also mated less often which may lead to their failure to reproduce.
Publication Name: Animal Behaviour
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0003-3472
Year: 1998
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Female reproductive decisions and parasite burden in a calopterygid damselfly (Insecta: Odonata)
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A field data that suggested that female sexual behavior in the damselfly Calopteryx haemorrhoidalis is influenced by parasite burden is presented. It is found out that the amount of female wing pigmentation was negatively correlated with the number of eugregarines present.
Publication Name: Animal Behaviour
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0003-3472
Year: 2003
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