Exposure to male song increases rate of egg development in the cricket Gryllodes sigillatus

African Zoology

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 323-326

  Bateman, Philip W ^a   Verburgt, L ^a   Ferguson, J W H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Acoustic displays; Egg development; Gryllidae; Gryllodes sigillatus; Song function

Indexed keywords

CRICKET; EGG DEVELOPMENT; SONG;

GRYLLIDAE; GRYLLODES SIGILLATUS;

EID: 27644433996     PISSN: 15627020     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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