Effects of sex, sensitivity and status on cue recognition in the weakly electric fish Apteronotus leptorhynchus

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 65, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 19-28

  Triefenbach, Frank ^a   Zakon, Harold ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRICAL METHOD; FISH; RECOGNITION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SEXUAL DIMORPHISM;

ANIMALIA; APTERONOTUS LEPTORHYNCHUS; NEMICHTHYS;

EID: 0037266695     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.2002.2019     Document Type: Article

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