No evidence for strategic male mating effort in response to female weight in a bushcricket

Behaviour

Volumn 144, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 1179-1192

  Sevgili, Hasan ^a   Reinhold, Klaus ^b  

^a HARRAN UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bushcricket; Female weight; Mating effort; Poecilimon jonicus jonicus; Sperm allocation; Spermatophore

Indexed keywords

ORTHOPTERA; PHANEROPTERINAE; POECILIMON;

EID: 34548689344     PISSN: 00057959     EISSN: 1568539X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/156853907781890904     Document Type: Article

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