Sexual harassment in live-bearing fishes (Poeciliidae): Comparing courting and noncourting species

Behavioral Ecology

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 680-688

  Plath, Martin ^a,b   Makowicz, Amber M ^a   Schlupp, Ingo ^a   Tobler, Michael ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Courtship; Gambusia; Mating tactics; Poecilia; Sexual conflict; Xiphophorus

Indexed keywords

COPULATION; COURTSHIP; CYPRINID; MATE ATTRACTION; PERSISTENCE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL CONFLICT; SNEAK COPULATION;

CYPRINODONTIFORMES; GAMBUSIA; GAMBUSIA AFFINIS; GAMBUSIA GEISERI; HETERANDRIA FORMOSA; PISCES; POECILIA; POECILIA LATIPINNA; POECILIA MEXICANA; POECILIA ORRI; POECILIA RETICULATA; POECILIIDAE; XIPHOPHORUS; XIPHOPHORUS CORTEZI; XIPHOPHORUS VARIATUS;

EID: 34547660098     PISSN: 10452249     EISSN: 14657279     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/beheco/arm030     Document Type: Article

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