Sex Differences in the Electrocommunication Signals of the Electric Fish Apteronotus bonapartii

Ethology

Volumn 116, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 1050-1064

  Ho, Winnie W ^a   Fernandes, Cristina Cox ^b,c   Alves Gomes, José A ^c   Smith, G Troy ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^c INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS DA AMAZÔNIA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN; CLADISTICS; ELECTRICAL METHOD; FISH; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY; INTERSPECIFIC VARIATION; MAGNITUDE; PARADIGM SHIFT; PLASMA; SEX-RELATED DIFFERENCE; SEXUAL DIMORPHISM; SIGNAL;

SOUTH AMERICA;

APTERONOTIDAE; APTERONOTUS;

EID: 78649484000     PISSN: 01791613     EISSN: 14390310     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0310.2010.01823.x     Document Type: Article

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