Female choice of a non-bodily ornament: An experimental study of cichlid sand craters in Cyathopharynx furcifer

Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

Volumn 64, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1437-1447

  Schaedelin, Franziska C ^a,b   Taborsky, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b KONRAD LORENZ INSTITUTE FOR ETHOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Bower; Extended phenotype; Lake Tanganyika; Mate choice; Multiple signals

Indexed keywords

CICHLID; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; LAKE ECOSYSTEM; MATE CHOICE; ORNAMENTATION; PHENOTYPE; SIGNAL; SPAWNING;

EAST AFRICAN LAKES; LAKE TANGANYIKA;

AFRICAN CICHLIDS; CICHLIDAE; CYATHOPHARYNX FURCIFER;

EID: 77955661116     PISSN: 03405443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00265-010-0959-3     Document Type: Article

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