Female ornaments hinder escape from spider webs in a role-reversed swarming dance fly

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 73, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1077-1082

  Gwynne, Darryl T ^a   Bussière, Luc F ^b   Ivy, Tracie M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^c ILLINOIS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

female ornament; long tailed dance fly; mating costs; predation risk; Rhamphomyia longicauda; sex biased mortality; sex role reversal; sexual selection; spider web

Indexed keywords

BODY SIZE; FLY; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; MATE CHOICE; MORTALITY; ORNAMENTATION; PREDATION RISK; REPRODUCTIVE COST; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; ROLE REVERSAL; SEX ROLE; SEXUAL DIMORPHISM; SEXUAL SELECTION; SPIDER WEB; SWARMING;

ANIMALIA; ARANEAE; DIPTERA; EMPIDIDAE; RHAMPHOMYIA LONGICAUDA;

EID: 34250030217     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2006.11.011     Document Type: Article

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