Forest litter crickets prefer higher substrate moisture for oviposition: Evidence from field and lab experiments
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Forest litter crickets prefer higher substrate moisture for oviposition: Evidence from field and lab experiments
For insects, choosing a favorable oviposition site is a type of parental care, as far as it increases the fitness of its offspring. Niche theory predicts that crickets should show a bell-shaped oviposition response to substrate moisture. However, lab experiments with mole crickets showed a linear oviposition response to substrate moisture. Studies with the house cricket Acheta domesticus also s...
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عنوان ژورنال: PLOS ONE
سال: 2017
ISSN: 1932-6203
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0185800