Operational Sex Ratio But Not Density Affects Sexual Selection In A Fish

Evolution

Volumn 67, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 1937-1949

  Wacker, Sebastian ^a   Mobley, Kenyon ^a,b   Forsgren, Elisabet ^c   Myhre, Lise Cats ^a   de Jong, Karen ^a   Amundsen, Trond ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY   (Germany)

^c NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE FOR NATURE RESEARCH   (Norway)

Author keywords

Body size; opportunity for selection; ornamentation; selection analysis; selection gradients; two spotted goby

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; BODY SIZE; BREEDING POPULATION; COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); ECOLOGICAL MODELING; FISH; PATERNAL CARE; PERCIFORM; PHENOTYPE; POPULATION DENSITY; SEX RATIO; SEXUAL SELECTION;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BODY SIZE; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; GENETICS; MALE; OPPORTUNITY FOR SELECTION; ORNAMENTATION; PERCIFORMES; PHYSIOLOGY; SELECTION ANALYSIS; SELECTION GRADIENTS; SEX RATIO; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; TWO-SPOTTED GOBY;

BODY SIZE; OPPORTUNITY FOR SELECTION; ORNAMENTATION; SELECTION ANALYSIS; SELECTION GRADIENTS; TWO-SPOTTED GOBY;

ANIMALS; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; MALE; PERCIFORMES; SEX RATIO; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL;

CALLOGOBIUS ATRATUS; GOBIUSCULUS FLAVESCENS;

EID: 84879780534     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: 15585646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/evo.12092     Document Type: Article

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