Carotenoid limitation of sexual coloration along an environmental gradient in guppies

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 266, Issue 1426, 1999, Pages 1317-1322

  Grether, Gregory F ^a   Hudon, Jocelyn ^b   Millie, David F ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b ROYAL ALBERTA MUSEUM   (Canada)

^c AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Carotenoid availability; Carotenoid limitation; Coloration; Geographic variation; Poecilia reticulata; Secondary sexual characters

Indexed keywords

CAROTENOID; PIGMENT;

CAROTENOID; COLOR; ENVIRONMENTAL GRADIENT; FISH;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; COLOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIETARY INTAKE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR;

ACTINOPTERYGII; ANIMALIA; POECILIA RETICULATA;

EID: 0033532961     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.1999.0781     Document Type: Article

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