Natural versus sexual selection: Predation risk in relation to body size and sexual ornaments in the green swordtail

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 84, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1051-1059

  Hernandez Jimenez, Armando ^a   Rios Cardenas, Oscar ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE ECOLOGÍA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Natural selection; Predation; Sexual selection; Swordtail; Trade off; Xiphophorus hellerii

Indexed keywords

BODY SIZE; CICHLID; MATE ATTRACTION; NATURAL SELECTION; ORNAMENTATION; PREDATION; PREDATION RISK; PREDATOR; PREFERENCE BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL SELECTION; TELEOST; TRADE-OFF;

CICHLIDAE; PISCES; THORICHTHYS ELLIOTI; XIPHOPHORUS; XIPHOPHORUS HELLERII;

EID: 84866944699     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2012.08.004     Document Type: Article

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