Male pipefish prefer ornamented females

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 61, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 345-350

  Berglund, Anders ^a   Rosenqvist, Gunilla ^b  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MALE BEHAVIOR; MATE CHOICE; ORNAMENTATION; ROLE REVERSAL; SEX ROLE;

SYNGNATHUS TYPHLE;

EID: 0034974940     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.2000.1599     Document Type: Article

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