Living on the wedge: Female control of paternity in a cooperatively polyandrous cichlid

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 276, Issue 1676, 2009, Pages 4207-4214

  Kohda, Masanori ^a   Heg, Dik ^b   Makino, Yoshimi ^a   Takeyama, Tomohiro ^a,c   Shibata, Jun Ya ^a   Watanabe, Katsutoshi ^c   Munehara, Hiroyuki ^d   Hori, Michio ^c   Awata, Satoshi ^a,d  

^a Osaka Prefecture University   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^c KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Brood care; Cooperative polyandry; Female paternity control; Julidochromis transcriptus; Reproductive skew; Sexual conflict

Indexed keywords

BROOD REARING; CICHLID; CLUTCH SIZE; COOPERATIVE BREEDING; FITNESS; NEST SITE; PATERNITY; POLYANDRY; SEXUAL CONFLICT; SPAWNING;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CICHLID; FEMALE; FEMALE PATERNITY CONTROL; FERTILIZATION; MALE; MATING SYSTEM; NESTING; NONHUMAN; PATERNITY; POLYANDRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPAWNING;

CICHLIDAE; JULIDOCHROMIS TRANSCRIPTUS;

EID: 72849118519     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2009.1175     Document Type: Article

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