Sex as moderator of early life experience: Interaction between rearing environment and sexual experience in male guppies

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 84, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1023-1029

  Guevara Fiore, P ^a   Svensson, P Andreas ^a,b   Endler, John A ^a  

^a DEAKIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b LINNAEUS UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Aggression; Alternative strategy; Courtship; Guppy; Male sexual behaviour; Mating tactics; Poecilia reticulata; Poeciliidae; Sexual learning; Social learning

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGGRESSION; COPULATION; COURTSHIP; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; JUVENILE; LEARNING; MALE BEHAVIOR; REARING; REPRODUCTIVE STRATEGY; SEXUAL SELECTION; TELEOST;

ANIMALIA; CYPRINODONTIFORMES; POECILIA RETICULATA; POECILIIDAE;

EID: 84866921561     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2012.07.028     Document Type: Article

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