Sexual display and mate choice in an energetically costly environment

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 12, 2010, Pages

  Head, Megan L ^a,c   Wong, Bob B M ^b,d   Brooks, Robert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^d MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BODY SIZE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYPRINODONTIFORMES; ENERGY TRANSFER; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FEMALE; GUPPY; MALE; MATE CHOICE; NONHUMAN; WATER FLOW; WATER TRANSPORT; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; DECISION MAKING; ENVIRONMENT; GENETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; STATISTICAL MODEL;

POECILIA RETICULATA;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BODY SIZE; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, GENETIC; MODELS, STATISTICAL; POECILIA; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL;

EID: 78650109885     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0015279     Document Type: Article

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