The role of sexual selection in the loss of sexually selected traits in the swordtail fish Xiphophorus continens

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 69, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1415-1424

  Morris, Molly R ^a   Moretz, Jason A ^a   Farley, Kristen ^a   Nicoletto, Paul ^b  

^a OHIO UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b LAMAR UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BODY SIZE; FISH; MATING BEHAVIOR; PIGMENT; SEXUAL SELECTION;

XIPHOPHORUS; XIPHOPHORUS CONTINENS;

EID: 20444413844     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2004.08.013     Document Type: Article

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