The interval between sexual encounters affects male courtship tactics in a desert-dwelling fish

Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

Volumn 64, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 1967-1970

  Svensson, P Andreas ^a   Lehtonen, Topi K ^a   Wong, Bob B M ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Fecundity; Paternal care; Sequential male choice; Sexual selection; Strategic courtship

Indexed keywords

COURTSHIP; FECUNDITY; FISH; MALE BEHAVIOR; MATING SUCCESS; PATERNAL CARE; PERCIFORM; REPRODUCTIVE STRATEGY; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL SELECTION; SIGNALING;

CALLOGOBIUS ATRATUS; CHLAMYDOGOBIUS EREMIUS;

EID: 78449287205     PISSN: 03405443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00265-010-1007-z     Document Type: Article

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