Cross-species familiarity in shoaling fishes

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 270, Issue 1520, 2003, Pages 1157-1161

  Ward, A J W ^a   Axford, S ^b   Krause, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b ENVIRONMENT AGENCY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Group composition; Individual recognition; School; Schooling

Indexed keywords

FAMILIARITY; GROUP BEHAVIOR; INTERSPECIFIC INTERACTION; INTRASPECIFIC INTERACTION; RECOGNITION; SCHOOLING BEHAVIOR;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FISH; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES; STIMULATION; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

ANIMALIA; CYPRINIFORMES; LEUCISCUS; LEUCISCUS CEPHALUS; PHOXINUS; PHOXINUS PHOXINUS; PISCES;

EID: 0037863729     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2003.2337     Document Type: Article

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