Behind closed doors: Use of visual cover by courting male three-spined stickleback, Gasterosteus aculeatus

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 68, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 465-471

  Dzieweczynski, Teresa L ^a   Rowland, William J ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COURTSHIP; FISH; MALE BEHAVIOR; MATING BEHAVIOR; MATING SUCCESS;

GASTEROSTEUS; GASTEROSTEUS ACULEATUS;

EID: 7944221540     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2003.08.024     Document Type: Article

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