Male mate choice scales female ornament allometry in a cichlid fish

BMC Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Baldauf, Sebastian A ^a   Bakker, Theo C M ^a   Herder, Fabian ^b   Kullmann, Harald ^c   Thünken, Timo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b ZOOLOGISCHES FORSCHUNGSMUSEUM ALEXANDER KOENIG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ALLOMETRY; BODY SIZE; CICHLID; MALE BEHAVIOR; MATE CHOICE; ORNAMENTATION; SEX ROLE; SEXUAL SELECTION;

CICHLIDAE; PELVICACHROMIS TAENIATUS;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CICHLID; FEMALE; FIN (ORGAN); HISTOLOGY; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT;

ANIMAL FINS; ANIMALS; CICHLIDS; FEMALE; MALE; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL;

EID: 77957605115     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712148     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-10-301     Document Type: Article

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