Context-dependent male mating preferences for unfamiliar females

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 70, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1429-1437

  Simcox, Helen ^a   Colegrave, Nick ^a   Heenan, Adel ^a   Howard, Chris ^a   Braithwaite, Victoria A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYPRINID; MALE BEHAVIOR; MATE CHOICE; TRADE-OFF;

BRACHYRHAPHIS EPISCOPI; POECILIIDAE;

EID: 28444432027     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2005.04.003     Document Type: Article

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