... range of these ants' heritable polyethism provides further support for the critical role of polyandry in increasing the efficiency of colony structure and, in turn, reproductive success. * Authors for correspondence ( [email protected] ; [email protected] ) Competing interests...

... in arthropods. We predicted that spiders would be more likely to molt as adults under higher levels of nutrition and a lower level of polyandry. However, our results showed that PMM is more closely associated with nutrient consumption, as mating history is less relevant. Females in the low nutrition groups were...

... of polyandry in this and other species of moths. Pheromone titers of mated and virgin females were determined. Females were fed a drop of 37.5 μl of unlabeled 10% glucose daily, as in the enrichment experiments, until analyzed. Five to eight females of each type were analyzed on each day. Changes...