Body size differences do not arise from divergent mate preferences in a species pair of threespine stickleback

Biology Letters

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 517-520

  Head, Megan L ^a,b   Price, Emily A ^a,c   Boughman, Janette W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Reproductive isolation; Sexual selection; Speciation; Stickleback

Indexed keywords

BODY SIZE; DIVERGENCE; MATE CHOICE; REPRODUCTIVE ISOLATION; SEXUAL SELECTION; SPECIATION (BIOLOGY); TELEOST;

ARTICLE; BODY SIZE; ECOLOGICAL SPECIALIZATION; FEMALE; FISH; GASTEROSTEUS ACULEATUS; MALE; MATE CHOICE; NATURAL SELECTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEXUAL SELECTION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

GASTEROSTEUS; GASTEROSTEUS ACULEATUS;

EID: 67749101331     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2009.0216     Document Type: Article

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