Quality or quantity? The role of donor condition in the production of chemical alarm cues in juvenile convict cichlids

Behaviour

Volumn 141, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 1235-1248

  Roh, Ellie ^a   Mirza, Reehan S ^a   Brown, Grant E ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHOCENTRUS; ARCHOCENTRUS NIGROFASCIATUS; CICHLIDAE;

EID: 13244292535     PISSN: 00057959     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/1568539042729667     Document Type: Article

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