Role of the iridescent eye in stickleback female mate choice

Journal of Experimental Biology

Volumn 216, Issue 15, 2013, Pages 2806-2812

  Flamarique, Inigo Novales ^a   Bergstrom, Carolyn ^a,c   Cheng, Christiana L ^a,d   Reimchen, Thomas E ^b  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA SOUTHEAST   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Behaviour; Body reflection; Colour contrast; Nuptial signal; Sexual selection

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BODY REFLECTION; COLOUR CONTRAST; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; DECISION MAKING; EYE; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; LIGHT RELATED PHENOMENA; MALE; MATE CHOICE; NUPTIAL SIGNAL; PHYSIOLOGY; PIGMENTATION; SEXUAL SELECTION; SMEGMAMORPHA; VIDEORECORDING;

BEHAVIOUR; BODY REFLECTION; COLOUR CONTRAST; NUPTIAL SIGNAL; SEXUAL SELECTION;

ANIMALS; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; EYE; FEMALE; MALE; MATING PREFERENCE, ANIMAL; OPTICAL PHENOMENA; PIGMENTATION; SMEGMAMORPHA; VIDEO RECORDING;

EID: 84881170464     PISSN: 00220949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/jeb.084889     Document Type: Article

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