Inbreeding and courtship calling in the cricket Teleogryllus commodus

Journal of Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 47-58

  Drayton, J M ^a   Milner, R N C ^a   Hall, M D ^b   Jennions, M D ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Condition dependence; Courtship call; Female choice; Heterozygosity; Selection analysis; Sexual selection

Indexed keywords

CALLING BEHAVIOR; COURTSHIP; CRICKET; HETEROZYGOSITY; INBREEDING AVOIDANCE; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; SEXUAL SELECTION; SIBLING; SIGNALING; SURVIVAL;

ACOUSTICS; ANIMAL; ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; FEMALE; GRYLLIDAE; HISTOLOGY; INBREEDING; MALE; MATE CHOICE; NYMPH; PHYSIOLOGY;

ACOUSTICS; ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; FEMALE; GRYLLIDAE; INBREEDING; MALE; MATING PREFERENCE, ANIMAL; NYMPH;

GRYLLIDAE; GRYLLINAE; TELEOGRYLLUS COMMODUS;

EID: 78650246495     PISSN: 1010061X     EISSN: 14209101     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1420-9101.2010.02135.x     Document Type: Article

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