Filial cannibalism in a paternal mouthbrooding fish in relation to mate availability

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 307-314

  Okuda, Noboru ^b   Yanagisawa, Yasunobu ^a  

^a EHIME UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APOGON DOEDERLEINI; APOGONIDAE;

CANNIBALISM; MOUTHBROODING FISH;

EID: 0030481465     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1996.0176     Document Type: Article

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