Female choice and the consistency of courtship feeding in black-horned tree crickets Oecanthus nigricornis walker (Orthoptera: Gryllidae: Oecanthinae)

Ethology

Volumn 106, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 543-557

  Brown, William D ^a   Kuns, Michelle M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COURTSHIP; CRICKET; SEXUAL SELECTION;

GRYLLIDAE; OECANTHUS NIGRICORNIS; ORTHOPTERA;

EID: 0033945924     PISSN: 01791613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1439-0310.2000.00569.x     Document Type: Article

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