Guarding males protect females from predation in a wild insect

Current Biology

Volumn 21, Issue 20, 2011, Pages 1716-1719

  Rodríguez Muñoz, Rolando ^a   Bretman, Amanda ^a,b   Tregenza, Tom ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; FEMALE; GRYLLIDAE; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; PREDATION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; FEMALE; GRYLLIDAE; MALE; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL;

GRYLLINAE; GRYLLUS CAMPESTRIS; HEXAPODA;

EID: 80054977123     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2011.08.053     Document Type: Article

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