Reproductive behaviour of female rosy bitterling Rhodeus ocellatus in response to a female-biased operational sex ratio

Behaviour

Volumn 151, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 755-768

  Liao, Caiping ^a   Yu, Dan ^a   Chen, Yiyu ^a   Reichard, Martin ^b   Liu, Huanzhang ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF HYDROBIOLOGY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF VERTEBRATE BIOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

alternative reproductive behaviour; bitterling; female aggression; operational sex ratio

Indexed keywords

EID: 84899057738     PISSN: 00057959     EISSN: 1568539X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/1568539X-00003168     Document Type: Article

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