Courtship rate signals fertility in an externally fertilizing fish

Biology Letters

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 727-731

  Weir, Laura K ^a   Grant, James W A ^b  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science   (Canada)

Author keywords

Courtship; Fertilization success; Mating rate; Sperm depletion

Indexed keywords

CLUTCH SIZE; COURTSHIP; FERTILIZATION (REPRODUCTION); FISH; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; SIGNAL; SPAWNING; SPERM;

ANIMALIA; ORYZIAS LATIPES;

EID: 77956618999     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2010.0139     Document Type: Article

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