Female control of offspring sex ratios based on male attractiveness in the guppy

Ethology

Volumn 116, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 524-534

  Sato, Aya ^a   Karino, Kenji ^a  

^a TOKYO GAKUGEI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYPRINID; FEMALE BEHAVIOR; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; PATERNAL EFFECT; SEX ALLOCATION; SEX RATIO;

CYPRINODONTIFORMES; POECILIA RETICULATA;

EID: 77953775793     PISSN: 01791613     EISSN: 14390310     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0310.2010.01767.x     Document Type: Article

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