Black male bellies and red female throats: Color changes with breeding status in a threespine stickleback

Environmental Biology of Fishes

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 237-244

  Von Hippel, Frank A ^a  

^a Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory   (United States)

Author keywords

Black nuptial coloration; Female coloration; Fish; Gasterosteus aculeatus; Parental success

Indexed keywords

COLOR MORPH; FISH; REPRODUCTION;

GASTEROSTEUS ACULEATUS;

EID: 0033061515     PISSN: 03781909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1007572620424     Document Type: Article

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