Does pregnancy affect swimming performance of female Mosquitofish, Gambusia affinis?

Functional Ecology

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 290-295

  Plaut, I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

Author keywords

Cost of reproduction; Critical swimming speed

Indexed keywords

FISH; PREGNANCY; REPRODUCTIVE COST; SWIMMING;

GAMBUSIA; GAMBUSIA AFFINIS; PISCES;

EID: 0036087061     PISSN: 02698463     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2435.2002.00638.x     Document Type: Article

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