Can ecotypic differences in male courtship behaviour be explained by visual cues provided by female threespine stickleback?

Evolutionary Ecology Research

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 437-451

  Hughes, Lily C ^a,b   Foster, Susan A ^a   Baker, John A ^a  

^a CLARK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Allopatric differentiation; Ecological speciation; Male mate choice; Parallel evolution; Threespine stickleback

Indexed keywords

EID: 84879681896     PISSN: 15220613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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