Male harassment drives females to alter habitat use and leads to segregation of the sexes

Biology Letters

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 449-451

  Darden, Safi K ^a,b   Croft, Darren P ^a,b  

^a BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Poecilia reticulata; Predation risk; Sexual conflict; Sexual harassment; Sexual segregation; Social factors hypothesis

Indexed keywords

CYPRINID; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FEMALE BEHAVIOR; HABITAT USE; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; MATE CHOICE; MORTALITY; PREDATION RISK; REPRODUCTIVE COST; REPRODUCTIVE STRATEGY; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; SEXUAL CONFLICT; SOCIAL IMPACT;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL SOCIETY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYPRINODONTIFORMES; FEMALE; GENDER BIAS; HABITAT; MALE; NONHUMAN; PREDATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEXUAL HARASSMENT; SEXUAL SELECTION; SOCIAL ASPECT; SPECIES;

POECILIA RETICULATA;

EID: 51549100481     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2008.0308     Document Type: Article

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