Male-male competition facilitates female choice in sticklebacks

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 266, Issue 1421, 1999, Pages 785-789

  Candolin, Ulrika ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Female choice; Male male competition; Nuptial coloration; Sexual signalling; Three spined stickleback

Indexed keywords

COMPETITION; FISH; HONEST SIGNALING; INTRASEXUAL INTERACTION; MATE CHOICE; SEXUAL SELECTION;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; COMPETITION; COURTSHIP; FEMALE; FISH; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR;

ANIMALIA; GASTEROSTEIFORMES; GASTEROSTEUS ACULEATUS;

EID: 0033594393     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.1999.0706     Document Type: Article

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