Sexual conflict over breeding substrate causes female expulsion and offspring loss in a cichlid fish

Behavioral Ecology

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 302-308

  Maan, Martine E ^a   Taborsky, Michael ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Cichlid fish; Infanticide; Lake Tanganyika; Lamprologus callipterus; Resource defense polygyny; Shell brooding

Indexed keywords

BREEDING SITE; CICHLID; INTRASEXUAL INTERACTION; INTRASPECIFIC COMPETITION; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; SEXUAL CONFLICT; SHELL; SPAWNING; SUBSTRATE; SUBSTRATE PREFERENCE; TERRITORIALITY;

AFRICA; EAST AFRICAN LAKES; LAKE TANGANYIKA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

CICHLIDAE; GASTROPODA; LAMPROLOGUS CALLIPTERUS;

EID: 52449112634     PISSN: 10452249     EISSN: 14657279     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/beheco/arm129     Document Type: Article

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