The effect of competitors on calling effort and life span in male field crickets
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2013
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Callander, Sophia
Kahn, Andrew
Hunt, J.
Backwell, Patricia
Jennions, Michael
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Oxford University Press
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Temporal variation in the strength of selection on male sexual traits is often attributable to changes in the social environment that alter the number of competitors. Selection could favor phenotypic plasticity in male investment into sexual traits if the
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Keywords: body size; competition (ecology); courtship; cricket; life history trait; male; parental investment; phenotype; phenotypic plasticity; selection; temporal variation black field cricket; life span; phenotypic plasticity; reproductive effort; social environment; Teleogryllus commodus.
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Behavioral Ecology
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