The functional significance of buccal feeding in the mouthbrooding cichlid Tropheus moorii

Behaviour

Volumn 142, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 265-281

  Schürch, Roger ^a   Taborsky, Barbara ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b KONRAD LORENZ INSTITUTE FOR ETHOLOGY   (Austria)

^c Behavioural Ecology   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Cichlices; Costs of reproduction; Life history; Mouth brooding; Parental care

Indexed keywords

CICHLIDAE; TROPHEUS MOORII;

EID: 24344432107     PISSN: 00057959     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/1568539053778274     Document Type: Article

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