Male mating behaviour and sperm production characteristics under varying sperm competition risk in guppies

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 58, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 1001-1006

  Evans, Jonathan P ^a   Magurran, Anne E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MALE BEHAVIOR; MATING BEHAVIOR; REPRODUCTIVE STRATEGY; SEX RATIO; SOCIAL STRUCTURE; SPERM COMPETITION;

ANIMALIA; CYPRINODONTIFORMES; POECILIA RETICULATA; SIGMOIDEA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0032723175     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1999.1212     Document Type: Article

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