Sire attractiveness influences offspring performance in guppies

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 271, Issue 1552, 2004, Pages 2035-2042

  Evans, Jonathan P ^a   Kelley, Jennifer L ^a   Bisazza, Angelo ^b   Finazzo, Elisabetta ^b   Pilastro, Andrea ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Differential allocation; Genetic benefits; Guppy; Indirect benefits; Sexual selection; Sperm competition

Indexed keywords

ANTIPREDATOR DEFENSE; GOOD GENES HYPOTHESIS; MATE CHOICE; SEXUAL SELECTION;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INSEMINATION; COPULATION; FEMALE; FISH; FOWL; GENE; GENOTYPE; GUPPY; GUPPY FISH; HYPOTHESIS; INHERITANCE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PERFORMANCE; PIGMENTATION; PREDATION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; REPRODUCTION; ANIMAL; CYPRINODONTIFORMES; DECISION MAKING; NEWBORN; PHYSIOLOGY; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SKIN PIGMENTATION; SWIMMING;

POECILIA RETICULATA;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; INSEMINATION, ARTIFICIAL; MALE; PIGMENTATION; POECILIA; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SKIN PIGMENTATION; SWIMMING;

EID: 7944223866     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2004.2815     Document Type: Article

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