Female and male Texas cichlids (Herichthys cyanoguttatum) do not fight by the same rules

Behavioral Ecology

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 102-108

  Draud, Matthew ^a   Macías Ordóñez, Rogelio ^b   Verga, Jack ^a   Itzkowitz, Murray ^c  

^a LONG ISLAND UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INSTITUTO DE ECOLOGÍA   (Mexico)

^c LEHIGH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Behavioral sex dimorphism; Body size asymmetry; Fight theory; Herichthys cyanoguttatum; Intrasexual contests; Mantel test; Sequential assessment; Texas cichlids

Indexed keywords

AGONISTIC BEHAVIOR; BODY SIZE; FIGHTING; INTRASEXUAL INTERACTION;

CICHLIDAE; HERICHTHYS; HERICHTHYS CYANOGUTTATUM;

EID: 1542755891     PISSN: 10452249     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/beheco/arg081     Document Type: Article

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