The information content of odour, colour and tactile cues in the mate choice of minnows

Behaviour

Volumn 148, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 909-925

  Kekäläinen, Jukka ^a,b   Leppänen, Henna Riikka ^b   Huuskonen, Hannu ^b   Lai, Yi Te ^b   Valkama, Hannele ^b   Taskinen, Jouni ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

Author keywords

Condition; female choice; multiple cues; odour; parasite abundance; phoxinus phoxinus; sexual ornament

Indexed keywords

CYPRINIDAE; NEOECHINORHYNCHUS RUTILI; PHILOMETRA OVATA; PHOXINUS PHOXINUS;

EID: 80052311730     PISSN: 00057959     EISSN: 1568539X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/000579511X584104     Document Type: Article

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