The effect of social environment on male-male competition in guppies (Poecilia reticulata)

Ethology

Volumn 112, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 22-32

  Price, Anna C ^a   Helen Rodd, F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); INTRASEXUAL INTERACTION; MALE BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

CYPRINODONTIFORMES; POECILIA RETICULATA;

EID: 33645037040     PISSN: 01791613     EISSN: 14390310     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0310.2006.01142.x     Document Type: Article

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