Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
10971000 Animal Behaviour 2012 4 Pages PDF
Abstract
► We tested the effects of male relatedness on mating in female bean beetles. ► Females showed no precopulatory discrimination against kin. ► Females were more willing to remate after mating with kin. ► Females behave to avoid inbreeding after copulation completed.
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Life Sciences Agricultural and Biological Sciences Animal Science and Zoology
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Female seed beetles, Callosobruchus chinensis, remate more readily after mating with relatives
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