Male adaptive stupidity: Male mating pattern in hybridogenetic frogs

Evolutionary Ecology Research

Volumn 7, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 1039-1050

  Schmeller, Dirk Sven ^a   O'Hara, Robert ^b   Kokko, Hanna ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Adaptive decision; Hybridogenesis; Interspecies conflict; Mating behaviour; Mating strategy

Indexed keywords

ANURA;

EID: 25644445193     PISSN: 15220613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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