Male advertisement call and female preference in sympatric and allopatric midwife toads

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 54, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 1333-1345

  Marquez R ^b   Bosch, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVERTISEMENT CALL; ALLOPATRY; FEMALE PREFERENCE; MIDWIFE TOAD; SYMPATRY;

ALYTES CISTERNASII; ALYTES OBSTERTRICANS; ALYTES OBSTETRICANS; ANURA;

EID: 0031472310     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1997.0529     Document Type: Article

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