Effects of body size on selectivity for mating cues in different sensory modalities

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 105, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 160-168

  Hedrick, Ann V ^a   Kortet, Raine ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

Author keywords

Body size; Field cricket; Gryllus integer; Mate choice; Multiple cues

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; BODY MASS; BODY SIZE; CHEMICAL CUE; CRICKET; MATING BEHAVIOR; PREFERENCE BEHAVIOR; SELECTION; SENSORY SYSTEM;

EID: 83155176194     PISSN: 00244066     EISSN: 10958312     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2011.01786.x     Document Type: Article

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