Mate Choice and Learning

Encyclopedia of Animal Behavior

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 389-393

  Hebets, E A ^a   Sullivan Beckers, L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

Cultural transmission; Experience; Mate choice copying; Previous male effects; Sexual imprinting; Sexual selection; Social learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 85069147388     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-08-045337-8.00364-8     Document Type: Chapter

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