Sounds modulate males' aggressiveness in a cichlid fish

Ethology

Volumn 116, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 1179-1188

  Bertucci, Frédéric ^a,b   Beauchaud, Marilyn ^a,b   Attia, Joël ^a,b   Mathevon, Nicolas ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ JEAN MONNET   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGGRESSION; BIOACOUSTICS; CICHLID; COURTSHIP; DISPLAY BEHAVIOR; INTRASEXUAL INTERACTION; SIGNAL; VISUAL CUE;

CICHLIDAE; METRIACLIMA ZEBRA;

EID: 78349242463     PISSN: 01791613     EISSN: 14390310     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0310.2010.01841.x     Document Type: Article

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