Conflicting preferences within females: Sexual selection versus species recognition

Biology Letters

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 525-527

  Rosenthal, Gil G ^a   Ryan, Michael J ^b  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Mate choice; Poeciliidae; Reproductive character displacement; Xiphophorus

Indexed keywords

CHARACTER DISPLACEMENT; CONSPECIFIC; FEMALE; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; MATE CHOICE; ORNAMENTATION; PREFERENCE BEHAVIOR; RECOGNITION; SEXUAL CONFLICT; SEXUAL SELECTION; SYMPATRY; TELEOST;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BODY SIZE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONFLICT; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; FISH; MATE CHOICE; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; BODY SIZE; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; CONFLICT (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; FISHES; MATING PREFERENCE, ANIMAL;

POECILIIDAE; XIPHOPHORUS; XIPHOPHORUS CORTEZI; XIPHOPHORUS PYGMAEUS;

EID: 80051670947     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2011.0027     Document Type: Article

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