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Intrasexual competition facilitates the evolution of alternative mating strategies in a colour polymorphic fish

BACKGROUND: Intense competition for access to females can lead to males exploiting different components of sexual selection, and result in the evolution of alternative mating strategies (AMSs). Males of Poecilia parae, a colour polymorphic fish, exhibit five distinct phenotypes: drab-coloured (immac...

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Autores principales: Hurtado-Gonzales, Jorge L, Uy, J Albert C
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2010
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3017046/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21182755
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2148-10-391