Indicators of recent mating success in the pipevine swallowtail butterfly (Battus philenor) and their relationship to male phenotype.

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A key determinant of the intensity of sexual selection acting on a trait is how variation in that trait is related to variance in reproductive success of individuals. This connection compels efforts to assess lifetime mating number and how it varies among individuals in a population. In the Lepidoptera, female mating success can be assessed relatively easily by counting by the number of spermatophores in the...

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