Territorial damselflies are larger and show negative allometry in their genitalia
Autor: Oscar Garcia Miranda
Autores adicionales: Dalia Ivette Galicia-Mendoza, Iago Sanmartín-Villar, Óscar García-Miranda, Adolfo Cordero-Rivera
Publicado en: Biological Journal of the Linnean Society
Fecha de publicación: 23 de septiembre de 2025
DOI/ISSN/ISBN: 10.1093/biolinnean/blab109
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Resumen
We tested the functional allometry hypothesis in 59 damselfly species. Aggressive territorial species were larger and showed shallower genital allometric slopes, suggesting males invest more in body size than genitalia when size drives reproductive success