What do male tench, Tinca tinca, advertise with morphological ornaments?

Acta Ethologica

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 70-78

  Vainikka, Anssi ^a   Kortet, Raine ^a,b   Paukku, Satu ^a   Rantala, Markus J ^c   Pirhonen, Juhani ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

Author keywords

Cyprinid; Immune function; Sex recognition; Sexual selection; Testosterone

Indexed keywords

CYPRINIDAE; CYPRINIFORMES; DIPLOSTOMUM; TINCA TINCA;

EID: 28844458088     PISSN: 08739749     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10211-005-0002-2     Document Type: Article

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