Female preference for male courtship song and its role as a signal of immune function and condition

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 72, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 809-818

  Tregenza, Tom ^a   Simmons, Leigh W ^b   Wedell, Nina ^a   Zuk, Marlene ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVE; CALLING BEHAVIOR; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COURTSHIP; CRICKET; FEMALE BEHAVIOR; IMMUNE RESPONSE; MALE BEHAVIOR; MATE CHOICE; SONG; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

HEXAPODA; INSECTA; ORTHOPTERA; TELEOGRYLLUS OCEANICUS;

EID: 33748621487     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2006.01.019     Document Type: Article

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