Weighing costs and benefits of mating in bushcrickets (Insecta: Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae), with an emphasis on nuptial gifts, protandry and mate density

Frontiers in Zoology

Volumn 9, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Lehmann, Gerlind U C ^a  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Acoustic communication; Bushcrickets; Different allocation hypothesis; Economics of mating; Female choice; Katydids; Mating decisions; Sexual selection; Spermatophores; Tettigoniidae

Indexed keywords

INSECTA; ORTHOPTERA; TETTIGONIIDAE;

EID: 84864934250     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17429994     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1742-9994-9-19     Document Type: Review

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