Audience Type and Receptivity Affect Male-Female Interactions in Siamese Fighting Fish

Ethology

Volumn 117, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 10-18

  Dzieweczynski, Teresa L ^a   Walsh, Meghan M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUDITORY CUE; COMMUNICATION BEHAVIOR; COURTSHIP; FIGHTING; INTERSEXUAL INTERACTION; REPRODUCTIVE STATUS;

BETTA; BETTA SPLENDENS; MACROPODINAE;

EID: 78650355696     PISSN: 01791613     EISSN: 14390310     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0310.2010.01849.x     Document Type: Article

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