Seasonal variation in female mate choice and operational sex ratio in wild populations of an annual fish, Austrolebias reicherti

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 7, 2014, Pages

  Passos, Carlos ^a   Tassino, Bettina ^a   Reyes, Federico ^a   Rosenthal, Gil G ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE LA REPÚBLICA   (Uruguay)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Centro de Investigaciones Cientificas de las Huastecas Aguazarca   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUSTROLEBIAS REICHERTI; BODY SIZE; FEMALE; FEMALE ANIMAL; FEMALE MATE CHOICE; LIFE CYCLE; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MALE; MATE CHOICE; NONHUMAN; OPERATIONAL SEX RATIO; PARITY; REPRODUCTIVE BEHAVIOR; REPRODUCTIVE FITNESS; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEX RATIO; TELEOST; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMAL; CYPRINODONTIFORMES; DECISION MAKING; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCTION; SEASON;

ANIMALS; BODY SIZE; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; CYPRINODONTIFORMES; FEMALE; MALE; MATING PREFERENCE, ANIMAL; REPRODUCTION; SEASONS; SEX RATIO;

EID: 84904323155     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0101649     Document Type: Article

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