García-González, Francisco; Gomendio, Montserrat - In: Behavioral Ecology 15 (2004) 1, pp. 23-30
Several hypotheses have been proposed to explain the adaptive significance of prolonged copulations in insects, which include mate guarding and sperm loading functions. We have explored the adaptive significance of the prolonged copulations in the golden egg bug (copulations up to 50 h) and the...
