Multiple mating and sequential mate choice in guppies: Females trade up

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 270, Issue 1524, 2003, Pages 1623-1629

  Pitcher, Trevor E ^a   Neff, Bryan D ^b   Rodd, F Helen ^a   Rowe, Locke ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Guppy; Mate choice; Multiple mating; Paternity; Sperm competition; Sperm precedence

Indexed keywords

FISH; MATE CHOICE; MULTIPLE MATING; PATERNITY; REPRODUCTIVE STRATEGY;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPULATION; CYPRINODONTIFORMES; FEMALE; MALE; MATING SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; PATERNITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SPERMATOZOON COUNT;

ANIMALIA; CYPRINODONTIFORMES; POECILIA; POECILIA RETICULATA;

EID: 0042030960     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2002.2280     Document Type: Article

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