The effect of past condition on a multicomponent sexual signal

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 270, Issue 1526, 2003, Pages 1779-1784

  Scheuber, Hannes ^a   Jacot, Alain ^a   Brinkhof, Martin W G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Condition dependence; Field cricket; Honest signalling; Multiple signals; Past condition; Sexual selection

Indexed keywords

BIOACOUSTICS; BODY CONDITION; CRICKET; HONEST SIGNALING; LIFE HISTORY; NUTRITION; SEXUAL SELECTION;

ACOUSTICS; ALLOMETRY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTHROPOD; ARTICLE; BODY SIZE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRICKET; DIET RESTRICTION; FEEDING; FEMALE; LIFE CYCLE; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUTRITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; SEXUAL SELECTION; SEXUALITY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALIA; ARTHROPODA; GRYLLIDAE; GRYLLINAE; GRYLLUS; GRYLLUS CAMPESTRIS; ORTHOPTERA;

EID: 0041331758     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2003.2449     Document Type: Article

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