Assessment and assortment: How fishes use local and global cues to choose which school to go to

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 271, Issue SUPPL. 5, 2004, Pages

  Ward, Ashley J W ^a   Hart, Paul J B ^a   Krause, Jens ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Assess; Choice; Schooling; Shoaling; Social

Indexed keywords

BODY SIZE; FISH; GROUP BEHAVIOR; SCHOOLING BEHAVIOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FISH SCHOOL; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALIA; GASTEROSTEUS; GASTEROSTEUS ACULEATUS; PISCES;

EID: 3242885308     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2004.0178     Document Type: Article

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