Female preference for conspecific males based on olfactory cues in a Lake Malawi cichlid fish

Biology Letters

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 411-414

  Plenderleith, Martin ^a   Van Oosterhout, Cock ^a   Robinson, Rosanna L ^a   Turner, George F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HULL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cichlidae; Mate choice; Olfaction; Pseudotropheus; Reproductive isolation; Sexual selection

Indexed keywords

CICHLID; MATE CHOICE; OLFACTORY CUE; REPRODUCTIVE ISOLATION; SEXUAL SELECTION;

AFRICA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CICHLID; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FISH; MALAWI; MALE; MATE CHOICE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOTROPHEUS EMMILTOS; PSEUDOTROPHEUS FAINZILBERI; RECOGNITION; REPRODUCTIVE ISOLATION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SMELLING; SPAWNING; SPECIES; SPECIES COMPARISON; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

AFRICA; EAST AFRICAN LAKES; LAKE MALAWI; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

ANIMALIA; CICHLIDAE; PISCES; PSEUDOTROPHEUS; PSEUDOTROPHEUS FAINZILBERI;

EID: 29144432705     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2005.0355     Document Type: Article

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