Female mate choice in swordtails and mollies: Symmetry assessment of Weber's law?

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 58, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 1139-1142

  Shettleworth, S J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POECILIA; XIPHOPHORUS;

EID: 0032701572     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1999.1239     Document Type: Editorial

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