title: Animal behavior: stay close for comfort.
abstract: Mate guarding - a male staying near a female for a while after mating - has traditionally been interpreted in the context of sexual conflict. New observations of wild field crickets suggest instead that guarding males provide protection from predators, enhancing female fitness.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biology, University of California, Riverside, California 92521, USA. marlene.zuk@ucr.edu
authors.forename: Marlene
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Zuk
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001522:Behavior, Animal; D005260:Female; D006135:Gryllidae / Q000502:physiology*; D008297:Male