Carotenoid availability affects the development of a colour-based mate preference and the sensory bias to which it is genetically linked

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 272, Issue 1577, 2005, Pages 2181-2188

  Grether, Gregory F ^a   Kolluru, Gita R ^a   Rodd, F Helen ^b   De La Cerda, Jennifer ^a   Shimazaki, Kaori ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Carotenoids; Mate preference; Phenotypic plasticity; Poeciliidae; Sexual selection

Indexed keywords

CAROTENOID;

CAROTENOID; COLOR; MATE CHOICE; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; SEXUAL SELECTION;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; COLOR; COLOR BASED MATE PREFERENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENT; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; FISH; FORAGING; GENETIC LINKAGE; GUPPY; HYPOTHESIS; MATING; NATURAL SELECTION; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY BIAS; SENSORY SYSTEM; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEX SPECIFICITY; SEXUAL SELECTION;

ANIMALIA; POECILIA RETICULATA; POECILIIDAE;

EID: 26944432668     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2005.3197     Document Type: Article

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