Female preference variation has implications for the maintenance of an alternative mating strategy in a swordtail fish

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 74, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 633-640

  Rios Cardenas, Oscar ^a   Tudor, M Scarlett ^b   Morris, Molly R ^b  

^a Instituto de Ecologia   (Mexico)

^b OHIO UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

alternative reproductive strategies; female preference; frequency dependent selection; swordtail; Xiphophorus multilineatus

Indexed keywords

CYPRINID; FITNESS; FREQUENCY DEPENDENCE; PREFERENCE BEHAVIOR; REPRODUCTIVE STRATEGY; SEXUAL MATURITY; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

XIPHOPHORUS MULTILINEATUS; XIPHOPHORUS NIGRENSIS;

EID: 34548615329     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2007.01.002     Document Type: Article

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