Beauty in the eyes of the beholders: Colour vision is tuned to mate preference in the Trinidadian guppy (Poecilia reticulata)

Molecular Ecology

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 596-609

  Sandkam, Benjamin ^a   Young, C Megan ^a   Breden, Felix ^a  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

animal mating breeding; behaviour social evolution; ecological genetics; evolutionary theory; population genetics empirical; sexual selection

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; POECILIA RETICULATA;

OPSIN;

ANIMAL; COLOR VISION; ECOSYSTEM; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETICS; MALE; MATE CHOICE; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; POECILIA; POPULATION GENETICS; PREDATION;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; COLOR VISION; ECOSYSTEM; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETICS, POPULATION; MALE; MATING PREFERENCE, ANIMAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPSINS; POECILIA; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR;

EID: 84925238080     PISSN: 09621083     EISSN: 1365294X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/mec.13058     Document Type: Article

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