Predator exposure alters female mate choice in the green swordtail

Behavioral Ecology

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 619-625

  Johnson, Jerald B ^a,b   Basolo, Alexandra L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA   (United States)

^b ALASKA FISHERIES SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Behavioral modulation; Female choice; Predation; Receiver bias; Sexual ornament; Sexual selection; Swordtails; Video playback experiments; Xiphophorus helleri

Indexed keywords

MATE CHOICE; ORNAMENTATION; PREDATION RISK; SEXUAL SELECTION;

CICHLIDAE; XIPHOPHORUS; XIPHOPHORUS HELLERII;

EID: 0142126703     PISSN: 10452249     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/beheco/arg046     Document Type: Article

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