Mutual mate choice in sticklebacks: Attractive males choose big females, which lay big eggs

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 56, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 859-866

  Kraak, Sarah B M ^a,b   Bakker, Theo C M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BODY SIZE; COLOR; EGG SIZE; FISH; MATE CHOICE; SEXUAL SELECTION;

GASTEROSTEUS ACULEATUS;

EID: 0031787539     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1998.0822     Document Type: Article

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