Dimorphic male midshipman fish: Reduced sexual selection or sexual selection for reduced characters?

Behavioral Ecology

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 670-675

  Lee, Jonathan S F ^a   Bass, Andrew H ^a  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

Alternative reproductive tactic; Cuckoldry; Male dimorphism; Midshipman fish; Porichthys notatus; Sexual selection

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; BODY SIZE; DIMORPHISM; ENERGETICS; FISH; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; MALE BEHAVIOR; MORPHOLOGY; POPULATION SIZE; SECONDARY SEXUAL CHARACTERISTICS; SEXUAL SELECTION; TERRITORIALITY;

PORICHTHYS NOTATUS;

EID: 33745627308     PISSN: 10452249     EISSN: 14657279     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/beheco/ark015     Document Type: Article

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