Colonists and desperadoes: different fighting strategies in wing-dimorphic male Texas field crickets

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 79, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1087-1093

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

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

aggression flight syndrome; agonistic behaviour; flight; flight muscle dimorphism; flight muscle histolysis; life history trade off; wing polymorphism

Indexed keywords

CRICKET; FIGHTING; FLIGHT; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; MUSCLE; TRADE-OFF;

GRYLLINAE; GRYLLUS TEXENSIS; HEXAPODA;

EID: 77950862190     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2010.02.002     Document Type: Article

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