Integrating phylogenetic and experimental analyses: The evolution of male and female nuptial coloration in the stickleback fishes (gasterosteidae)

Systematic Biology

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 261-277

  Mclennan, Deborah A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Comparative biology; Nuptial coloration; Phylogeny; Sexual selection; Stickleback fishes

Indexed keywords

CULAEA; CULAEA INCONSTANS; GASTEROSTEIDAE; GASTEROSTEUS; GASTEROSTEUS ACULEATUS; PISCES; PUNGITIUS;

EID: 0030313346     PISSN: 10635157     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/sysbio/45.3.261     Document Type: Article

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