Concordant female mate preferences in the cichlid fish Tropheus moorii

Hydrobiologia

Volumn 682, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 121-130

  Steinwender, Bernd ^a   Koblmüller, Stephan ^a   Sefc, Kristina M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

Cichlidae; Courtship; Lake Tanganyika; Mate choice; Sexual selection

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; COLOR; COURTSHIP; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; MATE CHOICE; PARENTAL INVESTMENT; PERCIFORM; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; POPULATION STRUCTURE; PREFERENCE BEHAVIOR; REPRODUCTION; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; SEX RATIO; SEXUAL SELECTION; SPAWNING;

CICHLIDAE; TROPHEUS; TROPHEUS MOORII;

EID: 84856217692     PISSN: 00188158     EISSN: 15735117     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10750-011-0766-5     Document Type: Article

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