Intra- and intersexual selection on male body size in the annual killifish Austrolebias charrua

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 96, Issue , 2013, Pages 20-26

  Passos, Carlos ^a   Tassino, Bettina ^a   Loureiro, Marcelo ^a   Rosenthal, Gil G ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE LA REPÚBLICA   (Uruguay)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Centro de Investigaciones Cientificas de las Huastecas Aguazarca   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Annual fishes; Body size; Female choice; Male competition

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; BODY SIZE; COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); CYPRINID; DECISION ANALYSIS; DOMINANCE; LIFE HISTORY; MALE; MATE CHOICE; SEXUAL DIMORPHISM; SEXUAL SELECTION;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUSTROLEBIAS CHARRUA; BODY SIZE; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; KILLIFISH; MALE; MATE CHOICE; NONHUMAN; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL DOMINANCE; SOCIAL INTERACTION;

EID: 84877793741     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: 18728308     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2013.01.008     Document Type: Article

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