The payoff of fighting in house crickets: Motivational asymmetry increases male aggression and mating success

Ethology

Volumn 113, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 457-465

  Brown, William D ^a   Chimenti, Andrew J ^a   Siebert, Joseph R ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT FREDONIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRICKET; FIGHTING; INTRASPECIFIC COMPETITION; INTRASPECIFIC INTERACTION; MATE CHOICE; MATING SUCCESS;

ACHETA DOMESTICUS;

EID: 34247164666     PISSN: 01791613     EISSN: 14390310     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0310.2007.01357.x     Document Type: Article

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