Female territoriality in a paternal mouthbrooding cardinalfish to avoid predation against spawned eggs

Canadian Journal of Zoology

Volumn 87, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 508-514

  Fukumori, Kayoko ^a   Okuda, Noboru ^a   Yanagisawa, Yasunobu ^b  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b EHIME UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIPREDATOR DEFENSE; BREEDING SEASON; DEFENSE BEHAVIOR; EGG PREDATION; MATING BEHAVIOR; PARENTAL CARE; PERCIFORM; PREDATION; REPRODUCTIVE POTENTIAL; SEX RATIO; SEX REVERSAL; SEX-RELATED DIFFERENCE; TERRITORIALITY;

ANIMALIA; APOGON NOTATUS; APOGONIDAE;

EID: 67650021586     PISSN: 00084301     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/Z09-037     Document Type: Article

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