Do male desert gobies compromise offspring care to attract additional mating opportunities?

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2011, Pages

  Symons, Nicholas ^a   Svensson, P Andreas ^a   Wong, Bob B M ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL CARE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BREEDING; CONFLICT; CONTROLLED STUDY; COURTSHIP; DESERT; FEMALE; MALE; MATING; NESTING; NONHUMAN; PATERNAL BEHAVIOR; PROGENY; REPRODUCTION; SEXUAL SELECTION; ANIMAL; DESERT CLIMATE; OOCYTE; PERCIFORMES; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; TIME;

CALLOGOBIUS ATRATUS; CHLAMYDOGOBIUS EREMIUS; GOBIIDAE;

ANIMALS; DESERT CLIMATE; FEMALE; MALE; NESTING BEHAVIOR; OVUM; PERCIFORMES; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 79958141059     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0020576     Document Type: Article

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