Chromatic interaction between egg pigmentation and skin chromatophores in the nuptial coloration of female two-spotted gobies

Journal of Experimental Biology

Volumn 208, Issue 23, 2005, Pages 4391-4397

  Svensson, Per Andreas ^a   Forsgren, Elisabet ^a   Amundsen, Trond ^a   Sköld, Helen Nilsson ^b  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^b ROYAL SWEDISH ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Courtship; Female ornament; Gobiusculus flavescens; Nuptial signal; Sexual selection

Indexed keywords

NORADRENALIN;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHROMATOPHORE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; FEMALE GENITAL SYSTEM; FUNCTIONS OF THE SKIN AND ITS APPENDAGES; IMAGE PROCESSING; OOCYTE; PERCIFORMES; PHYSIOLOGY; PIGMENTATION; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; SWEDEN;

ANIMALS; CHROMATOPHORES; FEMALE; GENITALIA, FEMALE; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; NOREPINEPHRINE; OVUM; PERCIFORMES; PIGMENTATION; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SKIN PHYSIOLOGY; SWEDEN;

GOBIIDAE; GOBIUSCULUS FLAVESCENS;

EID: 29744438643     PISSN: 00220949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/jeb.01925     Document Type: Article

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