Optimal mechanisms for finding and selecting mates: How threespine stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus) should encode male throat colors

Journal of Comparative Physiology A: Neuroethology, Sensory, Neural, and Behavioral Physiology

Volumn 190, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 241-256

  Rowe, M P ^a   Baube, C L ^b   Loew, E R ^c   Phillips, J B ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b OGLETHORPE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^d VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Color; Evolution; Fish; Spectral sensitivity; Vision

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COLOR; COLOR VISION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEMALE; ILLUMINATION; IRIS; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MICROSPECTROPHOTOMETRY; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PHARYNX; PHYSIOLOGY; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SMEGMAMORPHA;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; COLOR; COLOR PERCEPTION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; IRIS; LIGHTING; MALE; MICROSPECTROPHOTOMETRY; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHARYNX; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SMEGMAMORPHA;

EID: 2442620247     PISSN: 03407594     EISSN: 14321351     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00359-004-0493-8     Document Type: Article

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