Love is not puffed up

Amanda Tromans

Nature, 2000, vol. 404, issue 6774, 138-138

Abstract: Male long-tailed dance flies (Rhamphomyia longicauda) prefer to mate with females with swollen abdomens, possibly because they relate large abdomen size to egg maturity. But the females cheat the males into picking them for mating: they puff up their abdomens with air, presumably making the males think that their eggs are more mature than they really are.

Date: 2000
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