Prior mating success can affect allocation towards future sexual signaling in crickets

Fitness is often correlated with the expression level of a sexually selected trait. However, sexually selected traits are costly to express such that investment in their expression should be optimised to maximize their overall fitness gains. Social interactions, in the form of successful and unsucce...

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Main Authors: Rachel Chiswell, Madeline Girard, Claudia Fricke, Michael M. Kasumovic
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: PeerJ Inc. 2014-11-01
Series:PeerJ
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Online Access:https://peerj.com/articles/657.pdf