A learned response to sperm competition in the field cricket, Gryllus bimaculatus (de Geer)

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 72, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 673-680

  Lyons, Caroline ^a   Barnard, C J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTHROPOD; MATE CHOICE; REPRODUCTIVE BEHAVIOR; REPRODUCTIVE POTENTIAL; SPERM COMPETITION; SPERMATOPHORE;

ANIMALIA; GRYLLINAE; GRYLLUS BIMACULATUS;

EID: 33748139790     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2005.12.006     Document Type: Article

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