Pectoral fins and paternal quality in sticklebacks

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 267, Issue 1447, 2000, Pages 999-1004

  Künzler, Reto ^a   Bakker, Theo C M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Beat frequency; Embryo development; Fanning; Paternal quality; Pectorial fin size; Stickleback

Indexed keywords

MATE CHOICE; MORPHOLOGY; PATERNAL CARE; SEXUAL SELECTION;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; FISH; LIMB; MALE; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; PATERNITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR;

ANIMALIA; GASTEROSTEUS ACULEATUS;

EID: 0034701903     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2000.1102     Document Type: Article

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