The influence of sexual selection and ecological constraints on an extreme sexual size dimorphism in a cichlid

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 70, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 539-549

  Schütz, Dolores ^a,b   Taborsky, Michael ^b  

^a ERICH SCHMID INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BODY SIZE; CICHLID; SEXUAL DIMORPHISM; SEXUAL SELECTION;

CICHLIDAE; GASTROPODA; LAMPROLOGUS CALLIPTERUS; NEOTHAUMA;

EID: 33644525314     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2004.11.010     Document Type: Article

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