Male harassment reduces short-term female fitness in guppies

Behaviour

Volumn 144, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 503-514

  Ojanguren, Alfredo F ^a,b   Magurran, Anne E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Fecundity; Multiple mating; Poecilia reticulata; Sexual conflict; Trinidadian guppy

Indexed keywords

CYPRINODONTIFORMES; POECILIA RETICULATA;

EID: 34250005935     PISSN: 00057959     EISSN: 1568539X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/156853907780713055     Document Type: Article

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