Color, body size, and genitalia size are correlated traits in Eastern Mosquitofish (Gambusia holbrooki)

Copeia

Volumn , Issue 2, 2010, Pages 196-202

  Horth, Lisa ^a   Binckley, Christopher ^a   Wilk, Rebecca ^a   Reddy, Pranav ^a   Reddy, Abhinav ^a  

^a OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BODY SIZE; COLOR MORPH; CYPRINID; FITNESS; GROWTH RATE; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; MATING SUCCESS; NATURAL SELECTION; POLYMORPHISM; SURVIVAL;

GAMBUSIA; GAMBUSIA HOLBROOKI;

EID: 77952918921     PISSN: 00458511     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1643/CG-09-044     Document Type: Article

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