Do female Lake Eyre dragon lizards adjust courtship rejection behaviour under higher predation risk?

Behaviour

Volumn 147, Issue 13-14, 2010, Pages 1803-1818

  McLean, Claire A ^a   Stuart Fox, Devi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

behavioural compensation; female resistance; forced copulation; lizard; predation risk; sexual conflict

Indexed keywords

CTENOPHORUS MACULOSUS; SQUAMATA;

EID: 78649539013     PISSN: 00057959     EISSN: 1568539X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/000579510X537378     Document Type: Article

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