The building-up of social relationships: Behavioural types, social networks and cooperative breeding in a cichlid

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 365, Issue 1560, 2010, Pages 4089-4098

  Schürch, Roger ^a,b   Rothenberger, Susan ^a   Heg, Dik ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Body size; Cichlidae; Cooperation; Social network; Status

Indexed keywords

AGGRESSION; BODY SIZE; CICHLID; COOPERATIVE BREEDING; DECISION MAKING; DOMINANCE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GROUP SIZE; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; SOCIAL NETWORK;

CICHLIDAE; NEOLAMPROLOGUS PULCHER;

EID: 78650606506     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2010.0177     Document Type: Article

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