Alternative reproductive tactics in fishes

Fish Behaviour

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 411-433

  Knapp, Rosemary ^a   Neff, Bryan D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

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