Guppy males distinguish between familiar and unfamiliar females of a distantly related species

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 78, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 441-445

  Valero, Alejandra ^a,b   Magurran, Anne E ^a   Garcia, Constantino Macías ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

Author keywords

familiarity; guppy; harassment; individual recognition; invasive species; Poecilia reticulata; sexual selection; Skiffia bilineata

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; CONSPECIFIC; COURTSHIP; CYPRINID; DECISION MAKING; ENDANGERED SPECIES; FAMILIARITY; GAMETE; HABITUATION; INVASIVE SPECIES; MATE RECOGNITION; PERSISTENCE; REPRODUCTIVE COST; SEXUAL SELECTION; VULNERABILITY;

MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; NORTH AMERICA;

CYPRINODONTIFORMES; GOODEIDAE; POECILIA RETICULATA; SKIFFIA;

EID: 68349125533     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2009.05.018     Document Type: Article

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