Should you eat your offspring before someone else does? Effect of an egg predator on filial cannibalism in the sand goby

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 78, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 203-208

  Chin Baarstad, Ashley ^a,b   Klug, Hope ^a,c   Lindström, Kai ^d  

^a University of Florida   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^d ÅBO AKADEMI UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

Author keywords

egg predation; filial cannibalism; infanticide; parent offspring conflict; parental care; Pomatoschistus minutus; reproductive trade off; sand goby

Indexed keywords

CANNIBALISM; CHEMICAL CUE; EGG PREDATION; INFANTICIDE; PARENTAL CARE; PERCIFORM; VISUAL CUE;

KRAEMERIIDAE; POMATOSCHISTUS MINUTUS;

EID: 67049146777     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2009.04.022     Document Type: Article

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