Fighting and assessment in male cichlid fish: The effects of asymmetries in gonadal state and body size

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 55, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 883-891

  Neat, Francis C ^a   Huntingford, Felicity A ^a   Beveridge, Malcolm M C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STIRLING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BODY SIZE; FIGHTING; FISH; GONAD SIZE;

TILAPIA ZILLII;

EID: 0032055304     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1997.0669     Document Type: Article

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