Context-dependent response to red coloration in stickleback

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 52, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 923-927

  Bolyard, Kimberly J ^a   Rowland, William J ^b  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GASTEROSTEUS ACULEATUS;

ATTACK RESPONSE; NUPTIAL COLOUR; TERRITORIALITY; THREE-SPINED STICKLEBACK; VIDEO IMAGE;

EID: 0030274197     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1996.0240     Document Type: Article

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