The relationship between signal quality and physical condition: Is sexual signalling honest in the three-spined stickleback?

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 58, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 1261-1267

  Candolin, Ulrika ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FISH; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SIGNAL;

ANIMALIA; GASTEROSTEIFORMES; GASTEROSTEUS ACULEATUS;

EID: 0033403662     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1999.1259     Document Type: Article

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