Sympatric species of threespine stickleback differ in their performance in a spatial learning task

Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

Volumn 62, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 1935-1945

  Odling Smee, Lucy C ^a,c   Boughman, Janette W ^b   Braithwaite, Victoria A ^c  

^a Nature Publishing Group Palgrave Macmillan   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cognitive ecology; Spatial learning; Stickleback

Indexed keywords

BENTHOS; COGNITION; COMPLEXITY; ENVIRONMENTAL CUE; HABITAT QUALITY; INTERTIDAL ENVIRONMENT; LEARNING; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; SYMPATRY; TELEOST;

GASTEROSTEUS; GASTEROSTEUS ACULEATUS;

EID: 51849131417     PISSN: 03405443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00265-008-0625-1     Document Type: Article

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