A novel, sexually selected trait in poeciliid fishes: Female preference for mustache-like, rostral filaments in male Poecilia sphenops

Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

Volumn 64, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 1849-1855

  Schlupp, Ingo ^a,b   Riesch, Rüdiger ^a   Tobler, Michael ^c   Plath, Martin ^d   Parzefall, Jakob ^b   Schartl, Manfred ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^c TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Mate choice; Mating preference; Sexual selection; Structural ornaments

Indexed keywords

BODY SIZE; COPULATION; CYPRINID; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY; MATE CHOICE; POLYMORPHISM; POPULATION STRUCTURE; PREFERENCE BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL SELECTION;

CYPRINODONTIFORMES; PISCES; POECILIA SPHENOPS; POECILIIDAE;

EID: 77958004188     PISSN: 03405443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00265-010-0996-y     Document Type: Article

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