Female choice for large body size in the cave molly, Poecilia mexicana (Poeciliidae, Teleostei): influence of species- and sex-specific cues
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Martin Plath1,2,3), Ingo Schlupp1), Jakob Parzefall4) & Rüdiger Riesch1) (1 Department of Zoology, University of Oklahoma, 730 Van Vleet Oval, Norman, OK 73019, USA; 2 University of Potsdam, Institute of Biochemistry and Biology, Unit of Evolutionary Biology and Systematic Zoology, Karl-Liebknecht-Str. 24-25, 14476 Potsdam, Germany; 4 University of Hamburg, Biozentrum Grindel, Department of Behaviour, Martin-Luther-King-Platz 3, 20146 Hamburg, Germany)
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تاریخ انتشار 2007