Male Fish Deceive Competitors about Mating Preferences

Current Biology

Volumn 18, Issue 15, 2008, Pages 1138-1141

  Plath, Martin ^a,b   Richter, Stephanie ^a   Tiedemann, Ralph ^a   Schlupp, Ingo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

Author keywords

EVOL_ECOL

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ARTICLE; ASEXUAL REPRODUCTION; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; CYPRINODONTIFORMES; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; MALE; MATE CHOICE; PHYSIOLOGY; RECUMBENCY; SPERMATOZOON;

ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ANIMALS; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; DECEPTION; FEMALE; MALE; MATING PREFERENCE, ANIMAL; POECILIA; REPRODUCTION, ASEXUAL; SPERMATOZOA;

ANIMALIA; CYPRINODONTIFORMES; POECILIA; POECILIA MEXICANA;

EID: 52249105318     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2008.06.067     Document Type: Article

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