Competitor-to-resource ratio, a general formulation of operational sex ratio, as a predictor of competitive aggression in Japanese medaka (Pisces: Oryziidae)

Behavioral Ecology

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 670-675

  Grant, James W A ^a   Gaboury, Chantal L ^a   Levitt, Howard L ^a  

^a Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science   (Canada)

Author keywords

Aggression; Competitor to resource ratio; Japanese medaka; Mating systems; Operational sex ratio; Oryzias latipes; Resource competition; Territoriality

Indexed keywords

AGGRESSION; INTRASPECIFIC COMPETITION; MATING BEHAVIOR; SEX RATIO;

LATIPES; ORYZIAS LATIPES; ORYZIINAE; PISCES;

EID: 0034580805     PISSN: 10452249     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/beheco/11.6.670     Document Type: Article

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