Diet, sex, and death in field crickets

Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 2, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 1627-1636

  Zajitschek, Felix ^a   Lailvaux, Simon P ^b   Dessmann, Josephine ^c   Brooks, Robert ^c  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW ORLEANS   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Ageing; Calling effort; Gompertz; Senescence; Sex differences; Teleogryllus commodus

Indexed keywords

EID: 84890264231     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20457758     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ece3.288     Document Type: Article

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