Does divergence in female mate choice affect male size distributions in two cave fish populations?

Biology Letters

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 452-454

  Tobler, Michael ^a   Schlupp, Ingo ^b   Plath, Martin ^c  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Non visual mate choice; Poecilia mexicana (Poeciliidae); Sensory shift; Sexual selection; Size variation

Indexed keywords

BODY SIZE; DARK; DIVERGENCE; FISH; MALE BEHAVIOR; MATE CHOICE; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; SENSORY SYSTEM; SEXUAL SELECTION; SIZE DISTRIBUTION;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BODY SIZE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FISH; HABITAT; MALE; MATE CHOICE; NONHUMAN; POECILIA MEXICANA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEXUAL SELECTION; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

AMBLYOPSIDAE; POECILIA MEXICANA; POECILIIDAE;

EID: 51549104935     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2008.0259     Document Type: Article

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