Hydration benefits to courtship feeding in crickets

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 266, Issue 1428, 1999, Pages 1523-1527

  Ivy, Tracie M ^a,b   Chadwick Johnson, J ^a,c   Sakaluk, Scott K ^a  

^a ILLINOIS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

Courtship food gifts; Crickets; Gryllodes sigillatus; Life history trade offs; Sexual selection

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COURTSHIP; DRINKING; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FITNESS; HYDRATION; INSECT; LONGEVITY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRESS;

ANIMALIA; GRYLLIDAE; GRYLLODES SIGILLATUS; INSECTA;

EID: 0033533173     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.1999.0810     Document Type: Article

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