Male attractiveness covaries with fighting ability but not with prior fight outcome in house crickets

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2005

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Savage, Kate
Hunt, John E
Jennions, Michael
Brooks, Rob

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Oxford University Press

Abstract

In many species males that tend to win fights against other males are more attractive to females. There are three ways in which male fighting ability and attractiveness may be associated; (1) attractiveness and fighting ability are influenced by the same

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Keywords: body size; cricket; fighting; mate choice; Acheta domesticus; Gryllidae; Gryllinae "Loser-effect"; Acheta domesticus; Attractiveness; Body size; Fighting ability

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Behavioral Ecology

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