Evaluating the costs of a sexually selected weapon: Big horns at a small price

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 86, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 977-985

  McCullough, Erin L ^a   Emlen, Douglas J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cost; Horn; Male male competition; Rhinoceros beetle; Sexual selection; Trypoxylus dichotomus

Indexed keywords

BEETLE; FEMALE BEHAVIOR; FITNESS; FLIGHT ACTIVITY; HONEST SIGNALING; HORN; INTRASPECIFIC COMPETITION; LIFE HISTORY THEORY; ORNAMENTATION; SEXUAL SELECTION; SURVIVAL;

COLEOPTERA; ORYCTES RHINOCEROS; TRYPOXYLUS DICHOTOMUS;

EID: 84886240363     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2013.08.017     Document Type: Article

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