Stickleback fights: Why do winners win? Influence of metabolic and morphometric parameters

Physiological and Biochemical Zoology

Volumn 78, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 173-181

  Guderley, Helga ^a   Couture, Patrice ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^b INSTITUT NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

6 PHOSPHOFRUCTOKINASE; CAROTENOID;

DOMINANCE; FISH; METABOLISM; MORPHOMETRY;

AGGRESSION; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BODY COMPOSITION; CANADA; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; ENERGY METABOLISM; HISTOLOGY; MALE; METABOLISM; MORPHOMETRICS; PHYSIOLOGY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SKIN; SMEGMAMORPHA; SOCIAL DOMINANCE; TIME;

AGONISTIC BEHAVIOR; ANIMALS; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY WEIGHTS AND MEASURES; CAROTENOIDS; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; ENERGY METABOLISM; MALE; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PHOSPHOFRUCTOKINASES; QUEBEC; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SKIN; SMEGMAMORPHA; SOCIAL DOMINANCE; TIME FACTORS;

GASTEROSTEUS ACULEATUS;

EID: 16244375565     PISSN: 15222152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/425204     Document Type: Article

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