On the role of sexual selection in ecological divergence: A test of body-size assortative mating in the eastern newt Notophthalmus viridescens

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 101, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 884-897

  Takahashi, Mizuki K ^a,b   Takahashi, Yukiko Y ^a   Parris, Matthew J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS   (United States)

^b BUCKNELL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Fall line; Male preference; Subspecies boundary

Indexed keywords

AMPHIBIAN; ASSORTATIVE MATING; BODY SIZE; COMPETITIVE ABILITY; DIVERGENCE; FECUNDITY; INTRASPECIFIC VARIATION; MATE CHOICE; SEXUAL SELECTION; SPECIATION (BIOLOGY); SPERM COMPETITION; SPERMATOPHORE; SUBSPECIES; TAXONOMY;

NOTOPHTHALMUS; NOTOPHTHALMUS VIRIDESCENS; NOTOPHTHALMUS VIRIDESCENS DORSALIS; NOTOPHTHALMUS VIRIDESCENS VIRIDESCENS; SALAMANDRIDAE;

EID: 78649429356     PISSN: 00244066     EISSN: 10958312     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2010.01562.x     Document Type: Article

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