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ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Simmons LW
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4528477 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Biology letters 20150601 6
Theory predicts that females should invest least in mate searching when young, but increase their effort with age if they remain unmated. Few studies have examined variation in female sexual signalling. Female Dawson's burrowing bees (Amegilla dawsoni) search for males by signalling their receptivity on emergence, but many leave the emergence site unmated and must attract males at feeding sites. Female bees prevented from mating on emergence had more extreme versions of cuticular hydrocarbon pro ...[more]