Rapid assessment of female preference for male size predicts subsequent choice of spawning partner in a socially monogamous cichlid fish

Comptes Rendus - Biologies

Volumn 334, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 906-910

  Dechaume Moncharmont, Franois Xavier ^a   Cornuau, Jérémie H ^a   Keddar, Ismaël ^a   Ihle, Malika ^a   Motreuil, Sébastien ^a   Cézilly, Frank ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE BOURGOGNE   (France)

^b INSTITUT UNIVERSITAIRE DE FRANCE   (France)

Author keywords

Amatitliana nigrofasciata; Body size; Convict cichlid; Directional preference; Mate choice

Indexed keywords

ASSESSMENT METHOD; BODY SIZE; FEMALE; MALE; MATE CHOICE; PERCIFORM; PREFERENCE BEHAVIOR; SPAWNING;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BODY SIZE; CICHLID; FEMALE; MALE; MATING; NONHUMAN; RELIABILITY; REPRODUCTION; SPAWNING;

ANIMALS; BODY SIZE; BODY WEIGHT; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; CICHLIDS; FEMALE; MALE; MATING PREFERENCE, ANIMAL; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ARCHOCENTRUS NIGROFASCIATUS; CICHLIDAE;

EID: 82355173113     PISSN: 16310691     EISSN: 17683238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.crvi.2011.08.004     Document Type: Article

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