Innate and learned shoaling preferences based on body coloration in juvenile mollies, Poecilia latipinna

Ethology

Volumn 114, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 1044-1048

  Ledesma, Jessica M ^a   McRobert, Scott P ^a  

^a SAINT JOSEPH S UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ANTIPREDATOR DEFENSE; COLOR MORPH; CYPRINID; DECISION MAKING; INNATE BEHAVIOR; JUVENILE; LEARNING; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; PIGMENT;

CYPRINODONTIFORMES; POECILIA; POECILIA LATIPINNA;

EID: 53749106916     PISSN: 01791613     EISSN: 14390310     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0310.2008.01560.x     Document Type: Article

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