Article
High-Stakes Decision-Making by Female Crickets (Gryllus texensis): When to Trade In Wing Muscles for Eggs.
Physiological and biochemical zoology : PBZ - 1 Jan 2000
Miyashita Atsushi, Lee Ting Yat Marco, Adamo Shelley A
Abstract excerpt
AbstractResource-intensive traits, such as dispersal and reproduction, can be difficult to express simultaneously because of resource limitations. One solution is to switch between resource-intensive behaviors. Such phenotypic plasticity is one strategy that organisms use to funnel resources from one expensive trait to another. In crickets (Gryllus texensis), the development and maintenance of flight muscles...
Read the complete abstract on PubMedTopics
Share this publication in a Topic to start or enrich a Post.
