Male calling song provides a reliable signal of immune function in a cricket

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 267, Issue 1449, 2000, Pages 1171-1175

  Ryder, Jonathan J ^a,b   Siva Jothy, Michael T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Cricket calling song; Encapsulation; Haemocyte load; Immune function; Sexual selection

Indexed keywords

CALLING BEHAVIOR; CRICKET; SEXUAL SELECTION;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; IMMUNE SYSTEM; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; MALE; MATING; NATURAL SELECTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SONGBIRD;

EID: 0034702287     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2000.1125     Document Type: Article

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