Mate sampling strategy in a field cricket: Evidence for a fixed threshold strategy with last chance option

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 81, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 519-527

  Beckers, Oliver M ^a   Wagner, William E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA   (United States)

Author keywords

Acoustic communication; Female preference; Fixed threshold strategy; Gryllus lineaticeps; Last chance option; Mate choice; Search strategy

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION BEHAVIOR; CRICKET; MATE CHOICE; REPRODUCTIVE STRATEGY; SEXUAL SELECTION; THRESHOLD;

GRYLLINAE; GRYLLUS LINEATICEPS;

EID: 79851515748     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2010.11.022     Document Type: Article

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