Sex recognition in surface and cave dwelling male Atlantic mollies Poecilia mexicana (Poeciliidae, Teleostei)

Behaviour

Volumn 140, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 765-781

  Plath, Martin ^a   Wiedemann, Karsten ^a   Parzefall, Jakob ^a   Schlupp, Ingo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Cave fish; Lateral line; Poecilia; Sex recognition

Indexed keywords

EID: 0042721298     PISSN: 00057959     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/156853903322370661     Document Type: Article

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