Using video playback to study sexual communication

Environmental Biology of Fishes

Volumn 56, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 307-316

  Rosenthal, Gil G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Aggressive behavior; Animations; Experimental design; Mate choice; Pseudoreplication; Sexual Selection; Visual signals

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; COMMUNICATION; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; FISH; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 0032693142     PISSN: 03781909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1007597604793     Document Type: Article

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