Intrasexual competition facilitates the evolution of alternative mating strategies in a colour polymorphic fish

BMC Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Hurtado Gonzales, Jorge L ^a   Uy, J Albert C ^b  

^a SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b University of Miami   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGGRESSION; BODY SIZE; COLOR; CYPRINID; GENETIC VARIATION; INTRASEXUAL INTERACTION; MATE CHOICE; MATING SUCCESS; PHENOTYPE; POLYMORPHISM; REPRODUCTIVE STRATEGY; SEXUAL SELECTION;

CYPRINODONTIFORMES; POECILIA PARAE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; CYPRINODONTIFORMES; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC SELECTION; MALE; MATE CHOICE; PHENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; MALE; MATING PREFERENCE, ANIMAL; PHENOTYPE; POECILIA; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; SELECTION, GENETIC;

EID: 78650412171     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712148     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-10-391     Document Type: Article

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