Mating advantage for rare males in wild guppy populations

Nature

Volumn 503, Issue 7474, 2013, Pages 108-110

  Hughes, Kimberly A ^a   Houde, Anne E ^b   Price, Anna C ^c   Rodd, F Helen ^c  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b LAKE FOREST COLLEGE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLOR; DISEASE RESISTANCE; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; FISH; FITNESS; GENOTYPE; MALE; PERSISTENCE; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; POLYMORPHISM; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; SEXUAL SELECTION; SURVIVAL;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; GUPPY; MALE; MATING; NATURAL POPULATION; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PREDATOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; REPRODUCTIVE FITNESS; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; SEXUAL SELECTION; SURVIVAL;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; FEMALE; FERTILITY; GENETIC FITNESS; GENETIC VARIATION; MALE; MATING PREFERENCE, ANIMAL; MODELS, ANIMAL; PHENOTYPE; PIGMENTATION; POECILIA; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; RIVERS; SELECTION, GENETIC; SURVIVAL RATE;

POECILIA RETICULATA;

EID: 84887406747     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature12717     Document Type: Article

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