Inbreeding and advertisement calling in the cricket Teleogryllus commodus : laboratory and field experiments
Drayton, Jean; Milner, Richard; Hunt, J.; Jennions, Michael
Description
If sexually selected traits reveal a male's heterozygosity or condition to females, then such traits should exhibit declines with inbreeding. We tested this by examining the effect of inbreeding on advertisement calling in male crickets Teleogryllus commodus. We investigated the effect of one generation of full-sibling mating on calling effort and fine-scale call structure. Inbreeding reduced calling effort but had no effect on call structure. We then compared the attractiveness of inbred and...[Show more]
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Date published: | 2010 |
Type: | Journal article |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1885/62064 |
Source: | Evolution |
DOI: | 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2010.01053.x |
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