Mate availability facilitates cannibalistic behaviour in a nest brooding fish: Effects of timing during the brood cycle

Behaviour

Volumn 148, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 247-264

  Myint, Omar ^a,b   Takeyama, Tomohiro ^a   Okuda, Noboru ^c   Ohnishi, Nobuhiro ^d   Kohda, Masanori ^a  

^a Osaka Prefecture University   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF YANGON   (Myanmar)

^c KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d Kyoto University of Advanced Science   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cannibalism; Goby; Life history trade off; Mate availability; Parental care; Partial and whole clutch

Indexed keywords

CALLOGOBIUS ATRATUS; RHINOGOBIUS FLUMINEUS;

EID: 79851495135     PISSN: 00057959     EISSN: 1568539X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/000579511X554242     Document Type: Article

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