Fitness results from an optimal balance between survival, mating success and fecundity. The
interactions between these three components of fitness vary depending on the selective …

Males of many species choose their mate according to the female's reproductive status, and
there is now increasing evidence that male fitness can depend on this discrimination …

The scientific study of networks-computer, social, and biological-has received an enormous
amount of interest in recent years. However, the network approach has been applied to the …

The new ichnospecies Cubiculum levis is described as a bowl-shaped bioerosion trace
fossil in dinosaur bone from the Upper Cretaceous of western Argentina. The systematic …

D ermestes maculatus D eGeer (C oleoptera: D ermestidae) is both a pest of dried stored
products and, through its colonization of carrion, a forensically important species. However …

An evolutionary correlation between the effects of male seminal substances that reduce
female sexual receptivity and female remating frequency was found among strains of the …

Los procesos de descomposición cadavéricos son un fenómeno ecológico asimilable a una
sucesión heterotrófica, del que participan diversos insectos tales como: dípteros …

Abstract In Nigeria and most West African countries, the most common pest of animal
products which also infest smoked-dry fish is Dermestes maculatus (fish weevil). The bio …

Highlights•We examined factors influencing female remating in crab spiders, Mecaphesa
celer.•Females did not appear to perform sequential mate choice.•Monandric and polyandric …

昆虫的产卵是昆虫生物学最重要的内容之一, 雌虫产卵量的多少受多种环境因素和雌虫个体因素
的影响. 本文从环境因素和个体因素两方面综述了影响雌虫产卵量的因素, 包括温度, 湿度, 光照 …