Correlates of red throat coloration in female stickleback and their potential evolutionary significance

Evolutionary Ecology Research

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 453-472

  Yong, Lengxob ^a   Guo, Ruqing ^a,b   Wright, Daniel S ^a   Mears, Samantha A ^a   Pierotti, Michele ^a   McKinnon, Jeffrey S ^a  

^a EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Colour; Condition dependence; Female ornament; Gasterosteus aculeatus; Natural selection; Sexual selection; Threespine stickleback

Indexed keywords

EID: 84879612785     PISSN: 15220613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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