Sexual coercion in a territorial salamander: Females punish socially polygynous male partners

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 67, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 85-92

  Prosen, Ethan D ^a,b   Jaeger, Robert C ^a,b   Lee, Danielle R ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA AT LAFAYETTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGGRESSION; LIZARD; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; TERRITORIALITY;

AMPHIUMA MEANS; ANIMALIA; CAUDATA; PLETHODON; PLETHODON CINEREUS;

EID: 1142281881     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2003.02.005     Document Type: Article

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