The relationship among swimming performance, courtship behavior, and carotenoid pigmentation of guppies in four rivers of Trinidad

Environmental Biology of Fishes

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 227-235

  Nicoletto, Paul F ^a   Kodric Brown, Astrid ^b  

^a LAMAR UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

Author keywords

Condition dependent ornaments; Poecilia reticulata; Sexual selection

Indexed keywords

COURTSHIP; FISH; PIGMENT; SWIMMING;

TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO;

EID: 0033061303     PISSN: 03781909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1007587809618     Document Type: Article

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