Female leadership during migration and the potential for sex-specific benefits of mass spawning in the brown surgeonfish (Acanthurus nigrofuscus)

Environmental Biology of Fishes

Volumn 76, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 19-23

  Kiflawi, Moshe ^a,b   Mazeroll, Anthony I ^c  

^a The Interuniversity Institute for Marine Science Eilat   (Israel)

^b BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^c SOKA UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA   (United States)

Author keywords

Acanthurus nigrofuscus; Leader; Migration; Spawning aggregation

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATION BEHAVIOR; CORAL REEF; FEMALE; FISH; MIGRATION; SPAWNING;

ACANTHURUS NIGROFUSCUS; ANTHOZOA; PISCES;

EID: 33746053784     PISSN: 03781909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10641-006-9003-x     Document Type: Article

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