Social implications of the battle of the sexes: Sexual harassment disrupts female sociality and social recognition

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 276, Issue 1667, 2009, Pages 2651-2656

  Darden, Safi K ^a,b   James, Richard ^c   Ramnarine, Indar W ^d   Croft, Darren P ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^b BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES   (Trinidad and Tobago)

Author keywords

Familiarity; Poecilia reticulata; Sexual conflict; Sexual harassment; Social network; Social recognition

Indexed keywords

AGGRESSION; FAMILIARITY; RECOGNITION; SEXUAL CONFLICT; SEXUAL REPRODUCTION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL NETWORK; TELEOST;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; FRESHWATER FISH; GUPPY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX RATIO; SEXISM; SEXUAL HARASSMENT; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SOCIAL NETWORK; SOCIAL RECOGNITION; SOCIAL STRUCTURE;

POECILIA RETICULATA;

EID: 67650453990     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2009.0087     Document Type: Article

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