Colour change and assortment in the western rainbowfish

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 79, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1025-1030

  Rodgers, Gwendolen M ^a   Kelley, Jennifer L ^b   Morrell, Lesley J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

colour; colour change; Melanotaenia australis; oddity; rainbowfish; shoaling; social behaviour

Indexed keywords

ANTIPREDATOR DEFENSE; COLOR MORPH; CRYPSIS; DECISION MAKING; FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEM; GROUP BEHAVIOR; MIMICRY; MORPHOLOGY; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PIGMENT; PREDATION RISK; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; TELEOST;

ANIMALIA; MELANOTAENIA; PISCES;

EID: 77950866013     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2010.01.017     Document Type: Article

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