Production of aggressive electrocommunication signals to progressively realistic social stimuli in male Apteronotus leptorhynchus

Ethology

Volumn 109, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 243-258

  Dunlap, Kent D ^a   Larkins Ford, Jonah ^a  

^a TRINITY COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGGRESSION; COMMUNICATION; FISH; MALE;

APTERONOTUS; APTERONOTUS LEPTORHYNCHUS; GYMNOTOIDEI; NEMICHTHYS;

EID: 0037348352     PISSN: 01791613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1439-0310.2003.00865.x     Document Type: Article

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