A possible non-sexual origin of mate preference: Are male guppies mimicking fruit?

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 269, Issue 1490, 2002, Pages 475-481

  Rodd, F Helen ^a   Hughes, Kimberly A ^a   Grether, Gregory F ^a   Baril, Colette T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Guppies; Mate choice; Poecilia reticulata; Sensory bias

Indexed keywords

FOOD SELECTION; MATE CHOICE; MIMICRY; SENSORY SYSTEM; SEXUAL SELECTION;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; COLOR; CYPRINODONTIFORMES; FEMALE; MALE; MATE CHOICE; MATING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEXUAL SELECTION;

ANIMALS; COLOR; FEMALE; FRUIT; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOLECULAR MIMICRY; POECILIA; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL;

ANIMALIA; CYPRINODONTIFORMES; POECILIA; POECILIA RETICULATA;

EID: 41049088332     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2001.1891     Document Type: Article

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