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Mate preference in the painted goby: the influence of visual and acoustic courtship signals.
The Journal of experimental biology - 1 Nov 2013
Amorim M Clara P, da Ponte Ana Nunes, Caiano Manuel, Pedroso Silvia S, Pereira Ricardo, Fonseca Paulo J
Abstract excerpt
We tested the hypothesis that females of a small vocal marine fish with exclusive paternal care, the painted goby, prefer high parental-quality mates such as large or high-condition males. We tested the effect of male body size and male visual and acoustic courtship behaviour (playback experiment...
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