Choosy males from the underground: Male mating preferences in surface- and cave-dwelling Atlantic mollies (Poecilia mexicana)

Naturwissenschaften

Volumn 93, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 103-109

  Plath, Martin ^a   Seggel, Uta ^b   Burmeister, Heike ^b   Heubel, Katja U ^c   Schlupp, Ingo ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^b Biozentrum Grindel ^*  (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYDROGEN SULFIDE;

BODY SIZE; CAVERNICOLOUS SPECIES; FISH; MATE CHOICE;

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BODY SIZE; CYPRINODONTIFORMES; DARKNESS; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; FEMALE; MALE; MATING TYPE; NONHUMAN; PLESIOMORPHY; POPULATION; RIVER; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; TOXICITY;

ANIMALS; DARKNESS; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; LIGHT; MALE; POECILIA; SEAWATER; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL;

MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; NORTH AMERICA;

CYPRINODONTIFORMES; POECILIA; POECILIA MEXICANA;

EID: 33644979657     PISSN: 00281042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00114-005-0072-z     Document Type: Article

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