Blanckenhorn, Wolf U.; Hosken, David J.; Martin, Oliver Y. - In: Behavioral Ecology 13 (2002) 3, pp. 353-358
Finding, assessing, rejecting, and copulating with a mate is assumed to carry fitness costs, particularly for females, that have to be traded off against fitness benefits of mating such as increased fecundity, fertility, longevity, or better quality offspring. Female dung flies, Sepsis cynipsea...