Do I know you? Species recognition operates within and between the sexes in a unisexual-bisexual species complex of mollies

Ethology

Volumn 112, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 448-457

  Gumm, J M ^a,b   Gonzalez, R ^a   Aspbury, A S ^a   Gabor, C R ^a  

^a TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b LEHIGH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FISH; REPRODUCTIVE BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SPECIES COMPLEX;

CYPRINODONTIFORMES; POECILIA; POECILIA FORMOSA; POECILIA LATIPINNA;

EID: 33645891637     PISSN: 01791613     EISSN: 14390310     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0310.2005.01175.x     Document Type: Article

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