Inbreeding avoidance in a poeciliid fish (Heterandria formosa)

Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

Volumn 64, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1403-1414

  Ala Honkola, Outi ^a   Tuominen, Laura ^a   Lindström, Kai ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b ÅBO AKADEMI UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Heterandria formosa; Inbreeding avoidance; Poeciliidae; Polyandry; Postcopulatory sexual selection; Precopulatory sexual selection

Indexed keywords

FERTILIZATION (REPRODUCTION); INBREEDING AVOIDANCE; MATE CHOICE; MATING SUCCESS; POLYANDRY; REPRODUCTIVE STRATEGY; SEXUAL SELECTION; SIBLING; TELEOST;

CYPRINODONTIFORMES; HETERANDRIA; HETERANDRIA FORMOSA; POECILIIDAE;

EID: 77955663245     PISSN: 03405443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00265-010-0955-7     Document Type: Article

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