Pick on someone your own size: Ontogenetic shifts in mate choice by male garter snakes result in size-assortative mating

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 61, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 1133-1141

  Shine, R ^a   O'connor, D ^a   Lemaster, M P ^b   Mason, R T ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MATE CHOICE; ONTOGENY; SIZE SELECTION; SNAKE;

CANADA; MANITOBA;

THAMNOPHIS SIRTALIS;

EID: 0034952121     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.2001.1712     Document Type: Article

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