Sex differences in the dorsolateral telencephalon correlate with home range size in blenniid fish

Brain, Behavior and Evolution

Volumn 77, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 55-64

  Costa, Silvia S ^a   Andrade, Rui ^a   Carneiro, Luis A ^a   Gonçalves, Emanuel J ^a   Kotrschal, Kurt ^c   Oliveira, Rui F ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTO SUPERIOR DE PSICOLOGIA APLICADA   (Portugal)

^b INSTITUTO GULBENKIAN DE CIÊNCIA   (Portugal)

^c KONRAD LORENZ INSTITUTE FOR ETHOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Blennies; Hippocampal pallium; Sexual dimorphism; Spatial behavior; Teleost fish

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; FEMALE; FISH; HISTOLOGY; MALE; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PHYSIOLOGY; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TELENCEPHALON;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BODY WEIGHT; FEMALE; FISHES; HOMING BEHAVIOR; MALE; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TELENCEPHALON;

AVES; BLENNIIDAE; BLENNIOIDEI; BLENNIUS PHOLIS; HIPPOCAMPUS (FISH); LIPOPHRYS PHOLIS; MAMMALIA; PARABLENNIUS PARVICORNIS; TELEOSTEI;

EID: 79951821830     PISSN: 00068977     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000323668     Document Type: Article

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