Familiarity leads to female mate preference for novel males in the guppy, Poecilia reticulata

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 58, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 907-916

  Hughes, Kimberly A ^a,c   Du, Linh ^a   Rodd, F Helen ^b,d   Reznick, David N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLOR; FISH; MATE CHOICE; SEXUAL SELECTION;

ANIMALIA; CYPRINODONTIFORMES; PISCES; POECILIA RETICULATA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0032849785     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1999.1225     Document Type: Article

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