Does paternity or paternal investment determine the level of paternal care and does female choice explain egg stealing in the fifteen-spined stickleback?

Behavioral Ecology

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 188-192

  Östlund Nilsson, Sara ^a,b  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Egg stealing; Female choice; Paternal investment; Paternity; Spinachia spinachia; Sticklebacks

Indexed keywords

MATE CHOICE; NEST GUARDING; PATERNAL CARE; PATERNITY; REPRODUCTIVE EFFORT; REPRODUCTIVE STRATEGY;

CTENOLABRUS RUPESTRIS; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); GRAPSIDAE; SPINACHIA SPINACHIA; SPINACIA; SPINACIA SPINACIA;

EID: 0036219994     PISSN: 10452249     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/beheco/13.2.188     Document Type: Article

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