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No evidence for size-assortative mating in the wild despite mutual mate choice in sex-role-reversed pipefishes

Size-assortative mating is a nonrandom association of body size between members of mating pairs and is expected to be common in species with mutual preferences for body size. In this study, we investigated whether there is direct evidence for size-assortative mating in two species of pipefishes, Syn...

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Autores principales: Mobley, Kenyon B, Abou Chakra, Maria, Jones, Adam G
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Blackwell Publishing Ltd 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3894889/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24455162
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ece3.907