Sexual dichromatism in convict cichlids: The ethological significance of female ventral coloration

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 56, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 1021-1026

  Beeching, Simon C ^a   Gross, Steven H ^a   Bretz, Halle S ^a   Hariatis, Evangelos ^a  

^a SLIPPERY ROCK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLOR; FEMALE BEHAVIOR; INTRASEXUAL INTERACTION; SEXUAL DIMORPHISM;

ANIMALIA; ARCHOCENTRUS NIGROFASCIATUS; CICHLASOMA; CICHLASOMA NIGROFASCIATUM; CICHLIDAE; PERCIFORMES;

EID: 0031728825     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1998.0868     Document Type: Article

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