A behavioural syndrome in the field cricket Gryllus integer: intrasexual aggression is correlated with activity in a novel environment

Abstract excerpt

Behavioural syndromes, or suites of correlated behaviours across different contexts and situations, have recently drawn attention from evolutionary biologists. In the field cricket Gryllus integer, males are aggressive with one another and fight vigorously over females and territories. We examined whether aggressiveness with other males was correlated with activity in a potentially dangerous context (a novel envir...

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• Adaptation, Physiological
• Aggression
• Behavior, Animal
• Caves
• Cognition
• Genetics, Behavioral
• Models, Animal
• Phenotype

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Literature Corpus work

3ed4c665-2cdb-58c7-aabe-5a0ed6ce2473

DOI

10.1111/j.1095-8312.2007.00812.x