Geographic variation in sperm production by Trinidadian guppies

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 266, Issue 1433, 1999, Pages 2083-2087

  Evans, Jonathan P ^a   Magurran, Anne E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Guppy; Poecilia reticulata; Sneaky mating

Indexed keywords

RISK FACTOR; SPATIAL VARIATION; SPERM; SPERM COMPETITION;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; COURTSHIP; FISH; HYPOTHESIS; MALE; MATING; NONHUMAN; PREDATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK; SPERMATOGENESIS;

TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO;

ANIMALIA; CRENICICHLA; POECILIA RETICULATA; RIVULUS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0033595772     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.1999.0891     Document Type: Article

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