Female choice and paternal care in the fifteen-spined stickleback, Spinachia spinachia
In the fifteen-spined stickleback, Spinachia spinachia, males provide females with direct benefits by fanning, cleaning and guarding the offspring. Males announce their parental skills through intense body shakes during courtship. Females preferred to mate with more intensely shaking males. As a res...
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| Format: | Doctoral Thesis |
| Language: | English |
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Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för evolutionsbiologi
2000
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| Online Access: | http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-513 http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:isbn:91-554-4824-0 |