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Behavioral Ecology
Evolutionary Stable Strategies (ESS): male parental behaviors in Bluegills (Lepomis macrochirus). This illustration compares evolutionary stable strategies: parental, female mimic, and cryptic (sneaker).
Color and digital media
Sinervo Labs, Earth and Marine Sciences, UCSC; copyright K Anandakuttan