Sperm competition affects male behaviour and sperm output in the rainbow darter

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 265, Issue 1413, 1998, Pages 2365-2371

  Fuller, Rebecca C ^a,b  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Alternative mating strategies; Etheostoma caeruleum; Group spawning; Sneaky mating behaviour; Willingness to spawn

Indexed keywords

FISH; MALE BEHAVIOR; SPERM COMPETITION;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; COMPETITION; FEMALE; FISH; MALE; MATING; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPERM;

ANHINGIDAE; ANIMALIA; ETHEOSTOMA CAERULEUM; PERCIFORMES; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0032559011     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.1998.0585     Document Type: Article

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