Female preference for swords in Xiphophorus helleri reflects a bias for large apparent size

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 95, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 4431-4436

  Rosenthal, Gil G ^a   Evans, Christopher S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Poeciliidae; Preexisting bias; Sexual selection; Video playback; Visual signals

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; COURTSHIP; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; FISH; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY SYSTEM; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR;

ANIMALS; CYPRINODONTIFORMES; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SELECTION (GENETICS); SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL;

ANIMALIA; POECILIIDAE; XIPHOPHORUS; XIPHOPHORUS HELLERII;

EID: 0032515993     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.95.8.4431     Document Type: Article

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