Relationships between body size and sound-producing structures in crickets: Do large males have large harps?

Invertebrate Biology

Volumn 127, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 444-451

  Moradian, Nima R ^a   Walker, Sean E ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Acoustic signaling; Allometry; Orthoptera

Indexed keywords

ACHETA DOMESTICUS; GRYLLIDAE; GRYLLUS BIMACULATUS; GRYLLUS RUBENS; ORTHOPTERA; TELEOGRYLLUS OCEANICUS;

EID: 57349109967     PISSN: 10778306     EISSN: 17447410     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1744-7410.2008.00142.x     Document Type: Article

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