Female house crickets, Acheta domesticus, prefer the chirps of large males

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 54, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 1553-1562

  Gray, David A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^b BROCK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHIRPING; HOUSE CRICKET; MATE CHOICE; VOCALIZATION;

ACHETA DOMESTICUS; GRYLLIDAE; GRYLLINAE; INVERTEBRATA; ORTHOPTERA;

EID: 0031457320     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1997.0584     Document Type: Article

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