Inbreeding and courtship calling in the cricket Teleogryllus commodus

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2011

Authors

Drayton, Jean
Milner, Richard
Hall, M.D.
Jennions, Michael

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Blackwell Publishing Ltd

Abstract

Male field crickets produce two acoustic signals for mating: advertisement calls and courtship calls. While the importance of advertisement calling in mate attraction is well understood, the function of courtship calling is less clear. Here, we tested if

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Keywords: calling behavior; courtship; cricket; heterozygosity; inbreeding avoidance; life history trait; sexual selection; sibling; signaling; survival; acoustics; animal; animal communication; article; body weight; female; Gryllidae; histology; inbreeding; male; Condition dependence; Courtship call; Female choice; Heterozygosity; Selection analysis; Sexual selection

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Journal of Evolutionary Biology

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Journal article

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