The relative costs and benefits of territorial defense and the two conditional male mating tactics in the Comanche Springs pupfish (Cyprinodon elegans)

Acta Ethologica

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 65-72

  Leiser, John K ^a   Itzkowitz, Murray ^a  

^a LEHIGH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Conditional mating tactics; Pupfish; Satellites; Sneakers; Territory

Indexed keywords

CYPRINODON; CYPRINODON ELEGANS;

EID: 0012883121     PISSN: 08739749     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10211-002-0066-1     Document Type: Article

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