Reproductive behaviour in the three-spined stickleback

Biology of the Three-Spined Stickleback

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 157-177

  Östlund Nilsson, Sara ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b National Library of Norway   (Norway)

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