Female preference for male body size in brown trout, Salmo trutta: is big still fashionable?

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 77, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 129-137

  Labonne, Jacques ^a   Augery, Matthieu ^a   Parade, Michel ^a   Brinkert, Stéphane ^a   Prevost, Etienne ^a   Héland, Michel ^a   Beall, Edward ^a  

^a Ecologie Comportementale et Biologie des Populations de Poissons   (France)

Author keywords

Bayesian model; body size ratio; brown trout; female preference; operational sex ratio; Salmo trutta; sexual selection

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; BODY SIZE; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; FEMALE BEHAVIOR; MATE CHOICE; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; PREFERENCE BEHAVIOR; SALMONID; SEX RATIO; SEXUAL SELECTION; WILD POPULATION;

EURASIA; EUROPE; FRANCE; WESTERN EUROPE;

SALMO TRUTTA;

EID: 57449113813     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2008.09.018     Document Type: Article

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