Preventing behavioural interactions with a male facilitates sex change in female bluebanded gobies, Lythrypnus dalli

Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

Volumn 59, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 715-722

  Lorenzi, Varenka ^a   Earley, Ryan L ^a   Grober, Matthew S ^a  

^a GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Proximate mechanism; Sensory cues; Sex reversal; Social interactions

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL CUE; FEMALE BEHAVIOR; INTERSEXUAL INTERACTION; SEX REVERSAL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; TELEOST;

LYTHRYPNUS DALLI; TELEOSTEI;

EID: 33645050394     PISSN: 03405443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00265-005-0101-0     Document Type: Article

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