Swordtail fry attend to chemical and visual cues in detecting predators and conspecifics

PLoS ONE

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2006, Pages

  Coleman, Seth W ^a,b   Rosenthal, Gil G ^a,b  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Centro de Investigaciones Cientificas de Las Huastecas Aguazarca 16 de Septiembre   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL CUE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEFENSE MECHANISM; FRY (FISH); NONHUMAN; PREDATION; PREDATOR; PREDATOR AVOIDANCE; PREDATOR STRESS; VISUAL STIMULATION; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CYPRINODONTIFORMES; MEXICO; ODOR; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL;

XIPHOPHORUS BIRCHMANNI;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CYPRINODONTIFORMES; MEXICO; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ODORS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR;

EID: 54549098789     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0000118     Document Type: Article

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