The cost of reliable signaling: Experimental evidence for predictable variation among males in a cost-benefit trade-off between sexually selected traits

Evolution

Volumn 63, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 2363-2371

  Murai, Minoru ^a   Backwell, Patricia R Y ^b   Jennions, Michael D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE RYUKYUS   (Japan)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Courtship display; Female choice; Fiddler crab; Handicap principle; Sexual selection

Indexed keywords

COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; CRAB; FEMALE BEHAVIOR; FITNESS; HANDICAP PRINCIPLE; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; MATE CHOICE; MORPHOLOGY; SEXUAL SELECTION; SIGNALING; TRADE-OFF;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ARTICLE; BRACHYURA; COURTSHIP; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HISTOLOGY; MALE; MATE CHOICE; PHYSIOLOGY; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT;

ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ANIMALS; BRACHYURA; COURTSHIP; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIATION; MALE; MATING PREFERENCE, ANIMAL; SEX CHARACTERISTICS;

DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); OCYPODIDAE; UCA;

EID: 69249179208     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: 15585646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2009.00726.x     Document Type: Article

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