Behavioural asymmetry affects escape performance in a teleost fish

Biology Letters

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 414-417

  Dadda, Marco ^a   Koolhaas, Wouter H ^b   Domenici, Paolo ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^c CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

Anti predator behaviour; Escape performance; Escape response; Fish; Lateralization; Locomotion

Indexed keywords

ANTIPREDATOR DEFENSE; ESCAPE BEHAVIOR; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; LOCOMOTION; PERCIFORM; SURVIVAL;

ANIMALIA; CYMATOGASTER; CYMATOGASTER AGGREGATA; TELEOSTEI;

EID: 77954107673     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2009.0904     Document Type: Article

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