Female preference for multiple condition-dependent components of a sexually selected signal

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 271, Issue 1556, 2004, Pages 2453-2457

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR ORNITHOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Acoustic signalling; Female preference; Field cricket; Multiple signals; Sexual ornamentation; Sexual selection

Indexed keywords

CRICKET; FEMALE; MATE CHOICE; ORNAMENTATION; PREFERENCE BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL SELECTION; SONG;

ACOUSTICS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GRYLLIDAE; MATE CHOICE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEXUAL SELECTION; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ASSOCIATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BODY SIZE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GENETIC SELECTION; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SWITZERLAND;

GRYLLINAE; GRYLLUS CAMPESTRIS;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ANIMALS; BODY SIZE; CUES; FEMALE; GRYLLIDAE; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SELECTION (GENETICS); SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 17044423029     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2004.2907     Document Type: Article

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