A recent predatory encounter influences male courtship in a desert-dwelling fish

Behavioral Ecology

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 928-932

  Michelangeli, Marcus ^a   Wong, Bob B M ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

courtship; mate choice; predation risk; sexual selection

Indexed keywords

EID: 84904542131     PISSN: 10452249     EISSN: 14657279     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/beheco/aru056     Document Type: Article

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