Investment in mate guarding may compensate for constraints on ejaculate production in the cricket Gryllodes sigillatus

Ethology

Volumn 107, Issue 12, 2001, Pages 1087-1098

  Bateman, Philip W ^a   Gilson, Lauren N ^a   Ferguson, J W H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BODY SIZE; CRICKET; MATE GUARDING; SPERM COMPETITION;

GRYLLIDAE; GRYLLODES SIGILLATUS; INVERTEBRATA; ORTHOPTERA;

EID: 0035688461     PISSN: 01791613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1439-0310.2001.00756.x     Document Type: Article

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