Females of a tree cricket prefer larger males but not the lower frequency male calls that indicate large body size

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 84, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 137-149

  Deb, Rittik ^a   Bhattacharya, Monisha ^a   Balakrishnan, Rohini ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

Author keywords

Carrier frequency; Female preference; Male morphology; Mating duration; Oecanthus henryi; Repeatability; Spermatophore retention time; Tree cricket

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC METHOD; BODY SIZE; CALLING BEHAVIOR; CRICKET; FEMALE; MALE; MATE CHOICE; MORPHOLOGY;

GRYLLIDAE; OECANTHUS;

EID: 84862645811     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2012.04.020     Document Type: Article

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