Mate choice and the amazon molly: How sexuality and unisexuality can coexist

Journal of Heredity

Volumn 101, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2010, Pages

  Schlupp, Ingo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

Author keywords

Gynogenesis; Male choice; Poecilia formosa; Poecilia latipinna; Poecilia mexicana; Sperm

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; CONFERENCE PAPER; CYPRINODONTIFORMES; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; HOST; MATING; NONHUMAN; PARTHENOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEXUALITY; ANIMAL; EVOLUTION; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; POECILIA; REPRODUCTION; SEX; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR;

ANIMALS; EVOLUTION; MALE; POECILIA; REPRODUCTION; SEX; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION;

POECILIA FORMOSA; POECILIA LATIPINNA; POECILIA MEXICANA;

EID: 77952002383     PISSN: 00221503     EISSN: 14657333     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jhered/esq015     Document Type: Conference Paper

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