Experience plays a role in female preference for symmetry in the swordtail fish xiphophorus malinche

Ethology

Volumn 115, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 812-822

  Tudor, M Scarlett ^a,b   Morris, Molly R ^b  

^a University of Florida   (United States)

^b OHIO UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BODY SIZE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FEMALE BEHAVIOR; FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEM; MATE CHOICE; PREFERENCE BEHAVIOR; SYMMETRY; TELEOST;

XIPHOPHORUS CORTEZI; XIPHOPHORUS MALINCHE;

EID: 68949145117     PISSN: 01791613     EISSN: 14390310     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0310.2009.01676.x     Document Type: Article

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