Repeatability of female choice in the guppy: Response to live and videotaped males

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 54, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 369-376

  Kodric Brown, Astrid ^a   Nicoletto, Paul F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^b LAMAR UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYPRINODONTIFORMES; POECILIA RETICULATA;

EID: 0031213737     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1996.0420     Document Type: Article

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