Flight behaviour attenuates the trade-off between flight capability and reproduction in a wing polymorphic cricket

Biology Letters

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 229-231

  Guerra, Patrick A ^a   Pollack, Gerald S ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Courtship behaviour; Flight behaviour; Flight dimorphism; Life history trade off; Ovarian development; Wing polymorphism

Indexed keywords

BIOENERGETICS; COURTSHIP; CRICKET; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FLIGHT BEHAVIOR; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; POLYMORPHISM; REPRODUCTIVE COST; TRADE-OFF; WING MORPHOLOGY;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ATTENUATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; COURTSHIP; FEMALE; FLIGHT; FLIGHT CAPABILITY; FLIGHT MUSCLE; FORELIMB; INSECT; LIFE HISTORY; MALE; NONHUMAN; OVARY; OVARY DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; SEX DIFFERENCE; WING POLYMORPHIC CRICKET; ANIMAL; FLYING; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; GRYLLIDAE; PHYSIOLOGY; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR;

GRYLLUS; GRYLLUS TEXENSIS; HEXAPODA;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; FLIGHT, ANIMAL; GRYLLIDAE; MALE; OVARY; REPRODUCTION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL;

EID: 65349113069     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2008.0570     Document Type: Article

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