Evolution: radiotracking sexual selection. Academic Article

abstract

• Why are members of one sex bigger than those of the other? A new study in which male giant weta were radiotracked found that smaller, longer legged males win the race to inseminate females.

authors

• Sword, Gregory

published proceedings

• Curr Biol

author list (cited authors)

• Sword, G. A., & Simpson, S. J.

citation count

• 1

complete list of authors

• Sword, Gregory A||Simpson, Stephen J

publication date

• January 2008

publisher

• Elsevier  Publisher

published in

• Current Biology  Journal

keywords

• Animals
• Biological Evolution
• Body Size
• Female
• Male
• Orthoptera
• Selection, Genetic
• Sex Characteristics
• Sexual Behavior, Animal

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1016/j.cub.2008.08.055

start page

• R955

end page

• R956

volume

• 18

issue

• 20

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2008.08.055