Why is female choice not unanimous? Insights from costly mate sampling in marine iguanas

Ethology

Volumn 107, Issue 7, 2001, Pages 623-638

  Wikelski, Martin ^a,b,c,d,e   Carbone, Chris ^a,b,c,d,e   Bednekoff, Peter A ^a,b,c,d,e   Choudhury, Sharmila ^a,b,c,d,e   Tebbich, Sabine ^a,b,c,d,e  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Zoological Society of London   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^d BBC RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT   (United Kingdom)

^e KONRAD LORENZ INSTITUTE FOR ETHOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MATE CHOICE; REPRODUCTIVE BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

AMPHIBIA; IGUANIA; REPTILIA; SQUAMATA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0034900856     PISSN: 01791613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1439-0310.2001.00701.x     Document Type: Article

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