Avoiding a compromise between sexual selection and species recognition: Female swordtail fish assess multiple species-specific cues

Behavioral Ecology

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 282-287

  Hankison, Shala J ^a,b   Morris, Molly R ^a  

^a OHIO UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CLEMSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Back up signal hypothesis; Multiple mating preferences; Sexual selection; Species recognition; Xiphophorus pygmaeus

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL CUE; CONSPECIFIC; MATE CHOICE; RECOGNITION; SEXUAL SELECTION; SIGNAL; VISUAL CUE;

XIPHOPHORUS CORTEZI; XIPHOPHORUS PYGMAEUS;

EID: 0037353284     PISSN: 10452249     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/beheco/14.2.282     Document Type: Article

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