Audience effect alters male but not female mating preferences

Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

Volumn 63, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 381-390

  Plath, Martin ^a,b   Kromuszczynski, Katja ^a   Tiedemann, Ralph ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

Author keywords

Communication networks; Female choice; Mate preferences; Poecilia; Sexual selection

Indexed keywords

AGGRESSION; COMMUNICATION BEHAVIOR; CONSPECIFIC; CYPRINID; FEMALE BEHAVIOR; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; INTRASPECIFIC COMPETITION; MATE CHOICE; SEXUAL SELECTION; SPERM COMPETITION;

CYPRINODONTIFORMES; POECILIA; POECILIA FORMOSA; POECILIA MEXICANA; POECILIIDAE;

EID: 60049094871     PISSN: 03405443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00265-008-0672-7     Document Type: Article

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