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SUBMITTER: Fitzsimmons LP
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3730658 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Fitzsimmons Lauren P LP Bertram Susan M SM
Biology letters 20130710 4
Animal behaviour studies have begun to incorporate the influence of the social environment, providing new opportunities for studying signal strategies and evolution. We examined how the presence and sex of an audience influenced aggression and victory display behaviour in field-captured and laboratory-reared field crickets (Gryllus veletis). Audience type, rearing environment and their interaction were important predictors in all model sets. Thus, audience type may impose different costs and ben ...[more]