Male alternative reproductive behaviours in a mediterranean wrasse, Symphodus ocellatus: Evidence from otoliths for multiple life-history pathways

Evolutionary Ecology Research

Volumn 2, Issue 8, 2000, Pages 997-1007

  Alonzo, Suzanne H ^a,d   Taborsky, Michael ^b   Wirtz, Peter ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b KONRAD LORENZ INSTITUTE FOR ETHOLOGY   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MADEIRA   (Portugal)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Alternative reproductive strategies; Bourgeois and parasitic males; Life history pathways; Ontogeny

Indexed keywords

EID: 0042493431     PISSN: 15220613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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