Sexual selection, parasites and bower height skew in a bower-building cichlid fish

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 56, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 379-384

  Taylor, Martin I ^a   Turner, George F ^a   Robinson, Rosanna L ^a   Stauffer Jr , Jay R ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LEK; MATE CHOICE; PARASITE PREVALENCE; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; SECONDARY SEXUAL CHARACTERISTICS;

LAKE MALAWI; MALAWI;

ANIMALIA; CESTODA; CICHLIDAE; COPADICHROMIS; PERCIFORMES;

EID: 0032143887     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1998.0795     Document Type: Article

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