Parental care and sexual selection

Fish Behaviour

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 377-409

  Lindström, Kai ^a   St Mary, Colette M ^b  

^a ÅBO AKADEMI UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^b University of Florida ^*  (United States)

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