Female choice for an indicator of male size in the song of the black-horned tree cricket, Oecanthus nigricornis (Orthoptera: Gryllidae: Oecanthinae)

Evolution

Volumn 50, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 2400-2411

  Brown, William D ^a,b   Wideman, Julie ^a   Andrade, Maydianne C B ^a   Mason, Andrew C ^a   Gwynne, Darryl T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Bioacoustics; body size; communication; mate choice; phonotaxis; sexual selection

Indexed keywords

OECANTHUS NIGRICORNIS; GRYLLIDAE; OECANTHINAE; ORTHOPTERA;

BIOACOUSTICS; BLACK-HORNED TREE CRICKET; BODY SIZE; COMMUNICATION; MALE SIZE; MATE CHOICE; SEXUAL SELECTION;

EID: 0030301383     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.1996.tb03627.x     Document Type: Article

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