Females prefer carotenoid colored males as mates in the pentamorphic livebearing fish, Poecilia parae

Naturwissenschaften

Volumn 90, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 402-405

  Bourne, Godfrey R ^a   Breden, Felix ^b   Allen, Teresa C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI ST LOUIS   (United States)

^b SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MELANIN;

CAROTENOID; COLOR MORPH; FEMALE BEHAVIOR; MATE CHOICE; REPRODUCTIVE BEHAVIOR; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COURTSHIP; FEMALE; FISH; HYPOTHESIS; MALE; MATE CHOICE; MATING SYSTEM; MATING TYPE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; REPRODUCTION; SEXUAL SELECTION; SKIN PIGMENTATION;

ANIMALS; CAROTENOIDS; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; MALE; PIGMENTATION; POECILIA; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL;

ANIMALIA; POECILIA; POECILIA PARAE; POECILIA RETICULATA;

EID: 0141924353     PISSN: 00281042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00114-003-0444-1     Document Type: Article

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