The costs of hemispheric specialization in a fish

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 276, Issue 1677, 2009, Pages 4399-4407

  Dadda, Marco ^a   Zandonà, Eugenia ^b   Agrillo, Christian ^a   Bisazza, Angelo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b DREXEL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Asymmetry; Fish; Lateralization

Indexed keywords

ASYMMETRY; CYPRINID; FISH; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; PRIMATE; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SPECIALIZATION; TAXONOMY; TRADE-OFF;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN ASYMMETRY; DECISION MAKING; ECOLOGICAL SPECIALIZATION; EYE DOMINANCE; FEMALE; FISH; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISION;

ANIMALIA; FUNDULIDAE; PAN;

EID: 72749089358     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2009.1406     Document Type: Article

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