Opposite effects of learning cause asymmetric mate preferences in hybridizing species

Behavioral Ecology

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1133-1139

  Verzijden, MacHteld N ^a,b,c   Culumber, Zachary W ^a,b   Rosenthal, Gil G ^a,b  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Centro de Investigaciones Científicas de las Huastecas Colonia Aguazarca   (Mexico)

^c LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

hybrid zone; mate choice; olfactory communication; reproductive isolation; Xiphophorus

Indexed keywords

ASYMMETRY; CONSPECIFIC; EFFECTIVE POPULATION SIZE; FAMILIARITY; HYBRID ZONE; HYBRIDIZATION; LEARNING; MATE CHOICE; MATE RECOGNITION; OLFACTORY CUE; PHENOTYPE; REPRODUCTIVE ISOLATION; TELEOST;

XIPHOPHORUS; XIPHOPHORUS MALINCHE;

EID: 84865761222     PISSN: 10452249     EISSN: 14657279     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/beheco/ars086     Document Type: Article

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