Measuring female mating preferences

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 55, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 1029-1042

  Wagner Jr , William E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FEMALE CHOICE; MATE CHOICE; MATING PREFERENCE;

EID: 0032056013     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1997.0635     Document Type: Article

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