Adaptive behavioural syndromes due to strategic niche specialization

BMC Ecology

Volumn 7, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Bergmüller, Ralph ^a,b   Taborsky, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEUCHÂTEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NEOLAMPROLOGUS PULCHER;

ADAPTATION; AGGRESSION; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CICHLID; COOPERATION; EVOLUTION; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; PHYSIOLOGY; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; TERRITORIALITY;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; AGGRESSION; ANIMALS; CICHLIDS; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; EVOLUTION; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; TERRITORIALITY;

EID: 36749072135     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726785     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6785-7-12     Document Type: Article

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