Phenotypic plasticity in response to the social environment: Effects of density and sex ratio on mating behaviour following ecotype divergence

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1-6

  Karlsson, Kristina ^a   Eroukhmanoff, Fabrice ^a   Svensson, Erik I ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ASELLUS AQUATICUS; CHARA TOMENTOSA; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECOTYPE; FEMALE; HABITAT; ISOPODA; MALE; MATE CHOICE; MATING; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; PHRAGMITES AUSTRALIS; POPULATION DENSITY; SEX RATIO; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; ECOSYSTEM; EVOLUTION; GENETICS; PHENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR;

ANIMALIA; ASELLUS AQUATICUS; CHARA TOMENTOSA; ISOPODA; PHRAGMITES AUSTRALIS;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; ECOSYSTEM; FEMALE; ISOPODA; MALE; PHENOTYPE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEX RATIO; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL;

EID: 77958524741     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0012755     Document Type: Article

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