Superior fighters make mediocre fathers in the Pacific blue-eye fish

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 67, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 583-590

  Wong, Bob B M ^a,b  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY MARINE PROGRAM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIGHTING; FISH; MATE CHOICE; PATERNAL CARE; REPRODUCTIVE BEHAVIOR;

PACIFIC OCEAN;

NEMOPHILA; PSEUDOMUGIL; PSEUDOMUGIL SIGNIFER; PSEUDOMUGILIDAE;

EID: 1542318391     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2003.08.015     Document Type: Article

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