Predator foolhardiness and morphological evolution in 17-year cicadas (Magicicada spp.)

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 90, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 1-13

  Oberdörster, Uta ^a,b   Grant, Peter R ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aspect ratio; Flight speed mate searching; Predation risk; Sexual differences; Thorax muscles; Tibicen; Wing loading

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; BODY SIZE; FLIGHT BEHAVIOR; INSECT; MATE CHOICE; PREDATION RISK; WING MORPHOLOGY;

CICADA; CICADIDAE; MAGICICADA; MAGICICADA CASSINI; MAGICICADA SEPTENDECIM; TIBICEN;

EID: 33846140798     PISSN: 00244066     EISSN: 10958312     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2007.00702.x     Document Type: Article

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