Inbreeding affects female preference for symmetry in computer-animated sticklebacks

Behavior Genetics

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 417-424

  Mazzi, Dominique ^a,c   Künzler, Reto ^a   Largiadèr, Carlo R ^a   Bakker, Theo C M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ   (Finland)

Author keywords

Computer animation; Fluctuating asymmetry; Gasterosteus aculeatus; Inbreeding; Sexual selection; Three spined sticklebacks

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR GENETICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FLUCTUATING ASYMMETRY; INBREEDING; MATE CHOICE; NONHUMAN; OUTBREEDING; SEXUAL SELECTION; SPINE; ANIMAL; DECISION MAKING; HISTOLOGY; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SMEGMAMORPHA;

GASTEROSTEUS; GASTEROSTEUS ACULEATUS;

ANIMALS; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEMALE; INBREEDING; MALE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SMEGMAMORPHA;

EID: 3342938435     PISSN: 00018244     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:BEGE.0000023647.70223.1d     Document Type: Article

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