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SUBMITTER: Lehtonen TK
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4455733 | biostudies-literature | 2015 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Lehtonen Topi K TK Kvarnemo Charlotta C
Biology letters 20150501 5
Animals use a range of sensory cues for finding food, avoiding predators and choosing mates. In this regard, the aquatic environment is particularly suitable for the use of olfactory and other chemical cues. Nevertheless, mate choice research, even on aquatic organisms, has focused on visual signals, while chemical cues relevant in sexual selection have been assumed to be 'intrinsic' excretions of mate candidates. Here, using the sand goby Pomatoschistus minutus, a small fish with paternal egg c ...[more]